On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Al Biheiri wrote: > Can we get an ETA on when it will be available for wheezy? > > It’s been 17 days since you said it is “due to be installed in the > Debian FTP archive.” and Its still not available.
It is already available for wheezy, from a certain point of view. There is a set procedure for making (non-security) updates to the stable releases, and each step can take a fair amount of time. What has already happened: I made a patch for the package and submitted it to the release team for approval. A Stable Release Manaager has approved the diff and allowed the specific upload to occur. I uploaded the built package to the wheezy-proposed-updates suite, and the buildds picked it up and built it for all the remaining architectures. Thus, if you enable the wheezy-proposed-updates suite on your machine, the packages are available from the Debian archive. What still remains to happen: A point release of wheezy is made, wrapping up all the changes that have accumulated in wheezy-proposed-updates into the wheezy suite itself. This step is solely under the control of the stable release managers, though they happen to have indicated that a new wheezy point release is planned fairly soon (https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2015/08/msg00045.html). I cannot hasten this process; the only way to get access to the fixes sooner is to use the packages availale in wheezy-proposed-updates. https://www.debian.org/releases/proposed-updates and https://wiki.debian.org/StableProposedUpdates have a little more information about the stable-proposed-updates mechanism. -Ben
