Bug#690557: unblock: git-buildpackage/0.6.0~git20120822

[Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>]

Hi Salvatore,
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 10:39:06PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
> Control: tags -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Hi Guido
> 
> (Disclaimer: I'm not part of the release-team)
> 
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:04:55PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > Package: release.debian.org
> > Severity: normal
> > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > Usertags: unblock
> > 
> > Please unblock package git-buildpackage
> > 
> > The package in sid has doc updates and bugfixes in several places like
> > uscan processing. Since it's a leaf package it's low risk to update so
> > it'd be great to have this updated in wheeze.
> > Cheers,
> >  -- Guido
> > 
> > unblock git-buildpackage/0.6.0~git20120822
> 
> In meanwhile I think the debdiff is too huge to have this for an
> unblock to wheezy. I suggest to close this request to reduce the
> current open unblock requests. Do you agree Guido?

I'm still hoping to see a current version in wheezy and I fail to see
why we can't update such a leaf package. I know that the freeze was
announced but sometimes real lifes doesn't fit too well to these kind of
deadlines.
Cheers,
 -- Guido