Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 07:27:21PM +0000, Tony Houghton wrote: > Please unblock package roxterm; I have uploaded version 2.9.5-1 to > mentors.debian.net for sponsorship. I can't unblock anything that's not in sid. > This release includes a fix for #771022 which I think is important, or > more severe, because crashing roxterm can cause loss of data in any > applications running in its terminals. > > I see that new upstream releases are not normally unblocked, but I hope > that it can be considered in this case, although I am prepared to follow > the rules to the letter if deemed necessary. I am the upstream > maintainer as well as for the Debian package, and the changes are also > necessary upstream and have been committed to the main git branch for > some time. I think having two different version numbers for what is > effectively the same version would be more confusing for users and make > preparing the package a more complicated process for me. > > The other change, although not related to a Debian bug, fixes a problem > with workspace handling reported upstream, and involves a small, > unobtrusive code modification. Again, I think trying to leave this > change out would cause more complication in preparing the package than > to leave it in. > > debdiff output: I'm certainly willing to consider new upstream releases case-by-case, but the debdiff output you sent is for the binary packages, not the source. Please attach a source debdiff (i.e. against the .dscs, not the .changes) and remove the moreinfo tag, and I'll happily take a look. -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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