Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: unblock
Please unblock package librdf-linkeddata-perl I'm the upstream developer of librdf-linkeddata-perl and also a Debian user since the days of potato. Lately, I've been fortunate enough to have some of my code in Debian which I think is important to make the stuff we're doing take off. I therefore have a stake in making Wheezy as good as possible. The main maintainer is out travelling, so I'm taking the liberty of requesting an unblock or possibly an upload to testing-proposed-updates. I rushed the previous release, 0.54, a bit too much to get it finished before the freeze, so 0.56 is an important bugfix release. The maintainer didn't notice that I had actually filed bugs for the problems with the previous release, so the bug numbers are not in the changelog, but the 0.56-1 package fixes all but one of 8 bugs that are on 0.54-1. 0.56-1 has now been in unstable for 13 days with no further bugs reported. These are the bugs fixed by 0.56-1: #683218 : Performance problems caused by regeneration of statistics #683213 : Characters are UTF-8 double encoded or not encoded at all #682240 : Missing suggests and recommends #683215 : Performance issues caused by parsing external file on every request #683219 : Erroneous MIME type for XHTML #679587 : should recommend librdf-generator-void-perl #667534 : New upstream release available These are ordered by severity. I filed the top 2 as important, as I think assigning a serious severity is the maintainers call, but they should IMHO be considered RC. I wasn't aware at the time of 0.54 how detrimental the effects of #683218 would be, so I skipped it, but fixed it for 0.56. #683213 is a pure bug that will affect everyone not using ASCII as their charset, i.e. most of the world. Other than that, the changes in 0.56 are minor, it is a pure bugfix release from my part, and so, I would advocate it going straight to testing at this point, even though it is a new upstream release. Not having it in Wheezy should not be an option, as I'm sure the whole RDF+Perl community would recommend an upgrade to 0.56 to all users. Furthermore, I'm now branching the CPAN releases out in a more experimental direction, based on research I'm involved in. Thus 0.56 is the version most users would want to use for a long time to come even though there will be new releases on CPAN, and I will not ask for another freeze exception even if I make new releases. I'm committed to support 0.56, but not 0.54, and later releases would be less stable. Best regards, Kjetil unblock librdf-linkeddata-perl/0.56-1 -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
