Bug#883897: stretch-pu: package congress/4.0.0+dfsg1-3 -> +deb9u1

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: tags -1 + confirmed

On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 16:31 +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 01/13/2018 06:11 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > Control: tag -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec  9, 2017 at 00:30:01 +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > 
> > > Package: release.debian.org
> > > Severity: normal
> > > Tags: stretch
> > > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> > > Usertags: pu
> > > 
> > > Dear release team,
> > > 
> > > congress-server was built with openstack-pkg-tools *before* it
> > > stopped using
> > > /sbin/route from net-tools. Therefore, it's using /usr/sbin at
> > > setup time
> > > even though net-tools isn't a runtime dependency.
> > > 
> > > So I would like to upload a rebuild of Congress to Stretch, so
> > > its
> > > maintainer scripts would not need net-tools anymore. This would
> > > fix #858693.
> > > 
> > > Of course, since I am not planning any modification to the
> > > package, I have
> > > no debdiff to show (it would only contain a new changelog entry,
> > > which isn't
> > > very useful to review).
> > > 
> > 
> > If the rebuild makes a difference, then please show what that
> > difference
> > actually is?  Possibly that means a binary debdiff in addition to
> > the
> > normal source diff.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Julien
> 
> Hi Julien,
> 
> Here's the resulting changes on the config script, attached to this
> message, together with the debdiff. As you can see, the script now
> reads
> /proc/net/route directly instead of using /sbin/route, so we don't
> need
> the net-tools package which was otherwise missing in dependencies.
> 

Please go ahead.

Regards,

Adam