Bug#681332: unblock: dpkg/1.16.7

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 13:44:36 +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package dpkg
> 
> The version 1.16.5/1.16.6 introduced several important changes that we wanted
> to have in Wheezy:
> - the support of "dpkg-query --control-show" and "dpkg-query
>   --control-list" to prepare for the move of changelog and copyright
>   into the package metadata
> - dpkg-buildflags --status
> - several improvements in the 3.0 (quilt) format
> - an SE linux fix
> - many translations updates

Because I'm going to upload 1.16.8 pretty shortly with new translation
updates, less than 10 days have passed (but even if 10 had passed that
would be too short) and I was planning to request an unblock later on
once there's been enough time for any other regressions to show up,
I'd just disregard this request.

> But we had to re-upload after the freeze to fix #679959 so the automatic
> unblock no longer matches. Please update it to match.
>
> unblock dpkg/1.16.7
> 
> The debdiff is thus rather huge but most changes are translation updates
> or short string updates. I attach a diff where I filter po files and man
> page updates (filterdiff -x '*.po' -x '*.pot' -x '*/man/*').

> $ git diff --stat 1.16.4.3..1.16.7
> [...]
>  212 files changed, 77626 insertions(+), 59263 deletions(-)

In addition because the automatic freeze exception was for 1.16.5, which
would have gone in anyway, I don't see the point in asking the release
team to review the diff starting from the testing version. I think it
makes more sense to use a diff from 1.16.5.. onwards, but obviously
the release team might disagree with that.

guillem