Re: Allow newer rggobi into etch?
On 11 February 2007 at 23:40, Steve Langasek wrote:
| 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.
Is there a way for me to access a testing machine for builds?
Dirk
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