Hi Richard, On Sun, 2025-06-22 at 12:08 +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > I am pondering getting the changes at https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/chkrootkit/-/merge_requests/11 into chkrootkit > > I have the commit access to merge the MR into the debian repository, but: > - I would need a sponsor to upload > - It is close to the full freeze, so i want to check this is OK > > Basically: if i do the merge, will someone be willing able to do the sponsoring and upload next week? > - I probably wont be very responsive towards the end of next week (i > dont expect any issues though, and will be 'back' well before > migration) > - If the full freeze for all packages happens before migration (seems > possible?), i would hope these would qualify for an unblock, which > i can request (assuming the release-team will accept a request from a > non-DD!) but obviously uploading sooner would be better. To make the potential unblock as less troublesome as possible I recommend you reduce your changes to the bare minimum to fix bug #1107587, i.e. drop the salsa autopkgtest fix, the change to d/copyright and the Standards-Version bump, so that only the Depends change is contained. With these adjustments applied I am minded to sponsor your change. > > If there's a better idea, happy to do that instead. (it's not the end of > the world if these changes do not get into trixie - it fixes a missing > runtime dependencies, but in practice no-one has noticed this gap for > years: users are very likely to already have the right things installed, > and the autopkgtest also depends on enough to hide the issue) > > Let me know > Richard Best, Sven -- GPG Fingerprint 3DF5 E8AA 43FC 9FDF D086 F195 ADF5 0EDA F8AD D585
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