Re: openhpi

[Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:55:09AM -0700, Bryan Sutula wrote:
> 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:

Unblocked, still with some misgivings.  While I understand it would be of
benefit to have this package in main, the changeset is quite large, so the
package will not be given much leeway before removal in the case of
late-manifesting RC bugs.

Thanks,
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