(pardon the duplicate -- I accidentally did reply to sender instead of reply all)
On Mon, Jan 18, 2021, at 7:55 PM, Sean Whitton wrote: > Dear Jay, > > On Mon 18 Jan 2021 at 05:35PM -05, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: > > > Package: pikepdf > > Version: 1.17.3+dfsg-2 > > X-Debbugs-CC: q...@debian.org > > > > This is a request to please upload the latest pikepdf to sid. Right now, > > qpdf 10.1.0 is not able to transition to testing because autopkgtest is > > failing because of a regression in pikepdf. The problem is actually in > > pikepdf, and the pikepdf author resolved the issue within 24 hours of my > > release of qpdf 10.1.0. > > > > Reference: https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=qpdf > > > > Please let me know if any additional information is required. (I am the > > debian maintainer and upstream author of qpdf.) > > > > Also please let me know if you would like me to do an NMU. I can, but I'd > > prefer not to have to do it. Thanks. > > There are two blockers: > > 1) we're in the transitions freeze, so updating pikepdf would need > permission from the release team Oops, I forgot that was already going on. > 2) pikepdf has undergone a license change, and someone on the Debian > side needs to look over upstream's work in contacting all > copyright holders and having them okay it, and d/copyright needs > updating. > > Additionally, new releases of pikepdf typically involve a lot of work > updating d/copyright for new test resources. > > So, perhaps we could just backport the fix? Sure, I think that would work. I will ask upstream about it and/or try to come up with a patch. I know there were two small fixes, both simple. I'll let you know as soon as I can. --Jay
