Please move openhpi-2.6.2-3, currently in unstable, into the frozen Etch release. The openhpi source package produces the following binary packages: openhpi openhpi-clients openhpi-plugin-ipmi openhpi-plugin-ipmidirect openhpi-plugin-snmp-bc openhpi-plugin-sysfs openhpid libopenhpi2 libopenhpi-dev Briefly, 2.6.2-3 is in much better shape than the current 2.5.2-2 which is in testing. Openhpi is a fairly new package, was not part of Sarge, and no other packages depend on it, so should not pose a risk to the Etch release. A more complete (long) justification is provided below: a) The openhpi package comes from OpenHPI (http://openhpi.org/). The latest stable release (a few days ago) is 2.8.0. Prior to that, the latest stable release was 2.6.2 for several months, then 2.6.3 for a short period of time. Basically, for the past few months, the stable release was 2.6.2. (Note that the 2.7.x series is a development series.) So, shipping Etch with the 2.5.2 version would result in a very out-of-date package. b) Initial Debian packaging was 2.5.2. At that time, there were license issues, forcing that version to be in non-free. Those license problems have been resolved in 2.6.2-2 and beyond. It would be beneficial for users to have Etch include openhpi in main, rather than non-free. c) Between the 2.5 and 2.6 versions of openhpi, there were some structural changes to how it works. If Etch ships with 2.5.2, users will have to make bigger changes when the next Debian release comes out, or if they move to testing. Instead, it would be better if the first Debian version of openhpi already use the newer methods. In particular, I don't expect that a user will get much support from the upstream project for a 2.5.x version. This situation will be much improved with the newer 2.6.2-3 version. d) Because 2.5.2-2 was non-free, we didn't have autobuilder support. Therefore, the version currently in frozen Etch lacks binary debs for many supported architectures. In particular, the current Etch version is uninstallable on alpha arm hppa m68k mips mipsel s390 sparc. This is resolved with 2.6.2-3 in unstable. -- Bryan Sutula <Bryan.Sutula@hp.com>
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