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Hi Cameron,
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:47:29PM -0800, Cameron Dale wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Sylvain Beucler <beuc@beuc.net> wrote:
> > Any progress on that RC issue?
>
> I have made some progress since it was made RC in October, but the bug
> is more complicated than I first though. I will continue to work on
> the solution, though my time has been limited of late by a busy work
> schedule.
Ah, very cool. I hadn't seen any comments on the bug, so I assumed there
was no activity on it.
> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Kees Cook <kees@debian.org> wrote:
> > I've filed a removal request:
>
> I don't think this warrants a removal from testing, for the following reasons:
>
> 1. Though the original bug has been open for less than a year, the bug
> was not made RC (serious) until October 2009 (3 months ago), when
> another user noticed a side effect of the original bug that arguably
> makes it serious.
>
> 2. I am working on a fix for the bug, and hope to have it committed in
> the next week or two, and certainly before the freeze for the squeeze
> release.
>
> 3. The requester did not contact me (the maintainer), nor did anyone
> else, before requesting the removal, as mentioned here
> http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals: "In all cases, if there is
> a maintainer and it's not you, mention the maintainer's opinion or, if
> you don't know it, mention how and when you tried to contact him. If
> you didn't try to contact the maintainer, do so first."
I was just seeking to remove from testing, not a removal from the archive.
> In any case, removal of apt-transport-debtorrent is not required, as
> it is a separate package from debtorrent, and is unaffected by this
> bug. apt-transport-debtorrent doesn't depend on debtorrent, and it can
> be used by itself on a machine to communicate with debtorrent on a
> different machine.
That's totally true, apt-cache rdepends was trying to trick me and was
showing me things that were Recommends as well.
> I'd like to close this removal request for the above reasons, but I'm
> unsure of the etiquette related to that, and so I will leave it as is
> in the hopes that someone will read this message before actually
> performing the removal.
That's fine for me; thanks for the update on debtorrent!
-Kees
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Kees Cook @debian.org
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