Re: New upstream for ola?

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

On 2014-11-17 01:13, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Hi -release,
> 
> Yes, I realize that the freeze is upon us, and that therefore this
> request is, technically, too late. However, I would like to request to
> be allowed to update ola in jessie to a more recent upstream version.
> 
> The version in testing currently has a few endianness-related bugs which
> have been fixed upstream. I had wanted to do that upload last month, and
> I have it mostly prepared, but life intervened, and I didn't manage to
> finish it in time.
> 
> Since ola is a fairly new package (first upload was last April), it has
> no leaf packages yet, and it also isn't in stable yet; so I believe the
> risk is fairly low.
> 
> If you agree with my above reasoning, I will do an upload no later than
> next sunday.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Hi,

Please file a (pre-approval) unblock requests against release.debian.org
with the proposed debdiff[1].  Though please keep in mind that we will
review the changes - if the changes are larger than "reasonably
reviewable" or are generally outside the freeze policy, we will reject
the changes.  That said, we may still accept a cherry-picked subset of
the changes.

Without having seen the diff, I would be willing to consider
"endianness" issues for an "important" bug.  But we make no final
decision until we have since the changes.

Thanks,
~Niels

[1] Possibly filtered to exclude translations, auto-generated files
(e.g. configure et al).  Just remember to mention the filtering you have
applied.