On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > I'm following the sympa PTS for years and I'm afraid that I have to > > confirm Jean-Charles statement. > > Agreed. And given the request of the upstream authors I believe we should > consider this bug as release critical, thus raising the severity of this > bug. > > I know we're pretty late in the cycle but sympa is an "external" package > (ie no other packages depend on it) and it can be easily removed/updated > without creating trouble to the rest of the distribution. So I'm all in > favor to request the inclusion of a new upstream version... on the ground > that the current version is unsupported (including security-wise) upstream.
After some discussion with Andreas Barth, he indicated me that we need to move very fast to resolve this for etch or we'll end up with no sympa package at all. Stefen, please take position quickly or I'll upload the new package of Jean-Charles to unstable on monday/tuesday. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
