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Re: Possible migration of twofish.



On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:10:01 +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote:

> Dear Release Managers,
> 
> during Summer I adopted the orphaned library package "twofish"
> and I extended it to build also a shared library as well as
> providing the very first documentation in the form of Docbook
> source for a manual page.
> 
> Last week I expanded the documentation and I also removed the
> macro invokation "-D_REENTRANT" according to policy 3.9.1.
> That package build is not yet aged into ten days, but in case
> you intend to reject it in testing, please tell me. Since it
> essentially only involves improves documentation I was thinking
> it to be a natural candidate for testing.
> 
Only RC bug fixes are "natural candidates" at this point.  Anyway,
unblocked 0.3-3.

> However, now I got the idea of a final touch to this package,
> really making it worthy for Squeeze, namely adding to <twofish.h>
> the standard C++-wrapper
> 
>      #ifdef __cplusplus
>          extern "C" {
>      #endif
> 
> Before building and seeking a sponsor for such a package, I would
> like to make sure that such a change would not make the Release Team
> reject the corresponding change, thus also invalidating the update
> that already has passed into "unstable".
> 
I don't think that additional change would warrant a freeze exception.

Cheers,
Julien

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