Bug#774134: pre-approval: unblock: wader/0.5.12-1.1

[Graham Inggs <graham@nerve.org.za>]

Hi Jonathan

On 29 December 2014 at 20:12, Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org> wrote:
> Control: tag -1 moreinfo
>
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 12:08:57PM +0200, Graham Inggs wrote:
>> Please consider the attached debdiff to fix a FTBFS in wader (bug #768756).
>> Wader was removed from Jessie on 2014-12-08, however I only became
>> aware of the problem after bug #774098 was filed.  I am not the
>> maintainer of wader, so I seek pre-approval before I start the NMU
>> process.
>
> Is the maintainer still active? As wader was auto-removed from testing
> (indicating lack of response to the RC bug for some time) I'm reluctant
> to have it in stable with no maintenance.
>
> If you intend to take over maintenance that would be a positive influence.

I don't know if Alex is still active, I'm cc-ing him in the hope of a response.

I would be happy to co-maintain or take over maintenance of wader as needed.
It is an alternate dependency of modem-manager-gui, which I maintain.

Regarding the patch, I have been in contact with upstream and he is
testing a different approach to fixing this problem.
Basically, ensuring network_id is always an integer rather than
changing network_id to text.

I'll attach a new debdiff to this bug soon.

Regards
Graham