On Sunday, September 23, 2018 2:59:10 AM CDT Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > I would suggest to avoid too much speculation on this point: uploading a > new release to unstable is alone rather time consuming, because (beside > the technical challenges of correctly installing dozens of binary > packages) we have to fill a debian/copyright file for around 50k files > with hundreds of contributors (this is why we were still stuck at 1.62).
If debian/copyright is indeed a blocker -- and it is for me, the primary reason I have stepped back from boost packaging -- then I think time is well spent on the unresolved policy issues around this file. -Steve