severity 972478 serious thanks sorry forgot the severity when filing this bug.
Firstly https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=972432 needs to be actioned by the ftpmasters.
This has been done, however checking the britney logs afterwards has revealed another issue, for which I have just filed a bug. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973703
