Bug#566760: Bug#516708: Debtorrent just won't give up after receiving 404
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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.
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."
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.
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.
Cameron
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