Hello, and thanks for checking with us. Raúl Sánchez Siles <rasasi78@gmail.com> (06/07/2012): > Since I don't have upload rights I requested regular uploaders > first, then kde- extras team for sponsoring. The situation was such > that I failed to manage time left to freeze properly and upload didn't > happen. Moreover upstream released the 4.2.0 version, which I'm > proposing now and which differs slightly with my sponsoring requests. > I'm asking now considering kvirc package 4:4.2.0-1 into wheezy, Taking > into account [2], I'd like to support my petition on the following > points: > > · Bugs 658058 and 669189 matches multiarch and hardening flags release goals, > respectively. We could consider that. > · All packages generated are priority optional or extra, and > therefore unlikely to harm any other parts of the system. There is no > other debian package, excluding those generated by kvirc source > package, that depends on it. Noted, but that alone won't make us give you carte blanche. > · New upstream release include a very high density of translation > updates. For instance, full debdiff [3] shows 646 files changed, 99946 > insertions(+), 72202 deletions(-) whereas debdiff [4], excluding po > dir shows 305 files changed, 5472 insertions(+), 6656 deletions(-) Even excluding translation updates (which is at least for now very OK according to our freeze policy), that's still huge. > · New upstream release starts 4.2.x major versions, Historically > there have been 1 or 2 upstream minor revisions which we (debian) may > profit from, specially as regards with security or serious issues. If > 4.2.0 is not deployed in Wheezy our base version will be > 4.1.3+20111124.svn5988-1, based on a development snapshot. From the > maintainers point of view, basing on a stable release is more than > convenient. I can understand that, but that's unfortunate it got released so late as far as the wheezy freeze is concerned. > · One extra cosmetic-point is that this upload means zero bug > package. Something that I guess every package maintainer would like > to see for his packaged stuff :) Sorry, but totally irrelevant. :p To summarize, not sure what to advise for this package. Surely the proposed changes are much larger than what I'd like at this point of the release cycle. Mraw, KiBi.
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