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Please unblock package owfs
Hi,
I uploaded a new version of owfs (2.9p7) in unstable on 2014-10-17.
Talking with upstream, he tells me there is a important bug, so I uploaded
the new upstream version (2.9p8) that fixes it on 2014-10-20.
And here, I missed the fact that 2.9p8 introduced a problem on FreeBSD
until 2014-10-25 (a FreeBSD porter signaled the problem to me). And it took me
3 days (until 2014-10-27) to correctly fix it. And, of course, I missed the
deadline by one day :-(
I would be very pleased if you accept to unblock this package whereas the
reason is not correct according to the freeze policy (ie, I know I ask you to
overule the policy, not to apply it).
I do not add the debdiff here because it is really important (the current
version in testing is 2.9p5-1.1, ie several upstream releases before)
A few remarks:
* owfs has a RC bug : #768115
It is only missing a Breaks/Replaces relation. But, as this bugs is already
present in the current testing version (2.9p5-1.1), I'm waiting for your
decision here to know if I must prepare the fix on top of 2.9p5-1.1 or
2.9p8-4 (probably with an epoch to go through unstable)
* going back to the current testing version will reopen the important bug
#765371 but this bug will be easy to fix
* even if owfs produces library packages, this is a leaf package: to my
knowledge (and apt-cache rdepends results), no other packages depend nor
build-depend on this one.
Regards,
Vincent
unblock owfs/2.9p8-4
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