Re: Please allow adacontrol 1.6r8 into Etch

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Hi
>
> adacontrol 1.6r8-1 was uploaded a few days before the freeze and
> is 12 days old today and ready to migrate into Etch.  Here's a
> cost-benefit-risk analysis on why I think unblocking it is a good
> idea:
>
> cost: just the cost of hinting into Etch.
>
> benefits:
> - better service (more functionality: 60 new checks) for our users;
> - the old version is no longer supported upstream while the new
>   version is (in fact, commercial support is available);
>
> risks: no bugs in BTS, no reverse dependencies, few users per popcon,
> written in a language that prevents buffer overflows and other
> niceties, so risk is close to zero.

So the risk is only that if your risk analysis was too optimistic that 
adacontrol will be removed from etch :-)

> Please?

So, unblocked.

Cheers

Luk