Re: Allow newer rggobi into etch?
severity 400835 grave
thanks
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:43:39AM +1100, Ben Burton wrote:
> I was recently looking at the r-omegahat-ggobi package on etch (source
> rggobi), and the package is critically broken in that it contains
> nothing at all except for the changelog and copyright.
> This was noted late last year and fixed in sid (#400835). However, the
> fix has not progressed into etch because of the freeze (and perhaps
> because the bug was filed with 'normal' severity, even though it's of an
> RC nature).
> Would it be possible to let one of the fixed rggobi versions into etch?
> The maintainer is Dirk Eddelbuettel (CCed), who is CCed here.
No, the package in unstable includes a change to the debhelper compat level
and undocumented changes to the Debian packaging. This is not appropriate
for a freeze exception.
We obviously need 400835 resolved for etch, though, since the package in
testing is currently unusable. A targetted fix by way of
testing-proposed-updates would be fine; the alternative would have to be to
remove the package from the release.
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