Bug#774134: pre-approval: unblock: wader/0.5.12-1.1
On 29 December 2014 at 23:01, Graham Inggs <graham@nerve.org.za> wrote:
> 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
Maintainer address bounced, trying alternate address.
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