Hello Teddy, Teddy Hogeborn <teddy@recompile.se> (23/07/2012): > We released Mandos version 1.6.0 well in advance of the anticipated > Debian freeze, and have been using it ourselves since then, but our > sponsor did not upload it with his usual promptness. This release has > a very nice labor-saving autodetection feature for the client side > (clients most likely won't need any configuration anymore), and no > other incompatible changes since 1.5.5, but many packaging fixes. > Also, our popcon count is rather low: 11 for mandos and 14 for > mandos-client, and about half of those are our own systems. > > Could you *please* consider including this release in wheezy? We, the > upstream and uploaders of Mandos, feel that we did everything we could > for 1.6.0 to be included in wheezy, and that we are the victims of > circumstances outside our control (viz. that our sponsor, Daniel > Baumann, was late uploading it because of his being traveling due to > Debconf). while I concur on the “getting sponsored in a timely fashion is difficult” side, it doesn't look to me like a compelling reason to consider unblocking this package. “Reasons outside of the control of the maintainers” in our freeze policy would rather be about packages no longer building as a side-effect of other packages' bugginess, breakages on the buildds, etc. > This configuration-less client feature is our last nice feature we > once dreamed of being able to provide for our users; future releases > of the package will consist mainly of minor polish to other parts, but > no features are missing. Please make our dream come true? > > unblock mandos/1.6.0-1 I'm afraid I'll suggest instead to push this nice feature through wheezy-backports once it's available. As you said, most users are yourselves anyway… Mraw, KiBi.
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