Bug#683445: One more try

[intrigeri <intrigeri@debian.org>]

Hi Anton,

Anton Gladky wrote (21 Sep 2012 19:57:04 GMT) :
> Dear release team,

(Disclaimer: I'm not part of the release team.)

> the license problem of GMSH is resolved [1], the upstream
> kindly agreed to add a license exception.

> Please, consider adding this package (version 2.6.1.dfsg-4 in
> unstable) into Wheezy. I understand, that is, probably, too late for
> adding "new" packages, but it would be frustrating for many
> engineers and scientist not to find this program in the future
> stable release.

If I understand clearly, the last version that was part of testing was
2.5.1~beta2~svn10284~dfsg-1, while the current candidate is
2.6.1.dfsg-4. Moreover, the removal happened in February.

If there was a smaller delta between these two versions, such as "only
change since removal is license fix", and a bit less delay between the
removal and the unblock request, then I'd be happy to express my
support for this unblock request, but here it really looks like adding
a new package to testing. The request at hand is waaay outside
of the exceptions described by Rule #8.

So, personally, I don't think it's a good idea to unblock this package
at this time of the Wheezy release cycle. I'm sorry, and I hope this
package is not too much of a pain to maintain in stable backports.

Cheers,
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