why is apt blocked from testing?

["Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>]

Hello,

please look at http://bugs.debian.org/473559, which makes aptitude completely 
unusable in the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale and makes Russian installations (at least 
from mini.iso) fail. In the log, there is a comment: "These bugs should be fixed 
by apt 0.7.12, which I've just uploaded to the archive.  Once it migrates to 
testing I'll close them."

However, according to http://packages.qa.debian.org/apt, apt is currently 
blocked from testing by pkern. Shouldn't this block be reconsidered given the 
impact of the bug?

Alternatively, please upload apt and aptitude to testing-proposed-updates with 
the only change against the current testing versions being the removal of 
Russian translations (and thus work around the bug).

--
Alexander E. Patrakov