Bug#769612: unblock: bcache-tools/1.0.7-1

[Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@debian.org>]

hi,
thanks for taking care of the release!

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 06:11:38PM +0100, intrigeri wrote:
> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
> 
> Hi Filippo, hi bcache-tools maintainers,
> 
> [I'm not on the release team, just trying to give a hand.]
> 
> Filippo Giunchedi wrote (15 Nov 2014 00:30:48 GMT) :
> > This package didn't make it in time for the freeze, however jessie ships with a
> > bcache-capable kernel so I think it is important to have userspace tools
> > available.
> 
> I acknowledge that giving Debian Jessie users the means to use bcache
> feels somewhat important strategically, which *might* be a good enough
> reason to make an exception to the freeze policy on this one.
> 
> On the other hand:
> 
>   * Is there any strong reason why this use case cannot be addressed
>     via jessie-backports? (if it were *that* important to have in
>     Jessie, I guess the maintainers would probably have had it
>     uploaded way earlier)

Yeah backports would work in this case

>   * This package was accepted into Debian for the first time less than
>     3 weeks ago. What kind of testing has it seen?

some debian users are running bcache-tools even now,
https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=bcache-tools
it has been uploaded to fedora in may 2014,
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/bcache-tools/

anyways, wheezy-backports will do

thanks,
filippo