On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 07:01:32AM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote: > 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]. Will do, but that will require me to finish that work first; so this may take a few days. > 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. Understood. > 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. Right. Note though that while the endianness issues are the most important reason why I want to do this, there are a few other things. > [1] Possibly filtered to exclude translations, auto-generated files > (e.g. configure et al). Just remember to mention the filtering you have > applied. Sure. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26
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