Bumping this as my mail to ftpmaster went unanswered. Could someone please remind me who to ask about the NEW Queue? It is causing me a FTBFS as I need this Build-Depends for an existing package which itself has reasonably wide-spread (for an R package) reverse dependencies.
On 12 October 2017 at 06:39, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | Hi guys, | | Package r-cran-readstata13 is now a required build-dependency of another | package we had in Debian for a decade. So I prepared r-cran-readstata13 five | weeks ago, and followed up with a revision a week ago (adding README.source). | | Could you tell why the package is still in NEW and what is holding it back | from migrating to unstable? Without any information it is somewhat hard to | achieve progress here... And as a build-dependency, not providing it leaves | me no choice but to remove another set of packages from Debian as I can no | longer update the other package. Anyone who can help? The passive-aggressive "we won't work on your package, and won't tell you why" is a wee bit annoying. Dirk | | Thanks, Dirk | | -- | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org
