Hi release team, it turned out that profphd is non-functional in stretch (see bug #897605). Since its not obviously a security issue we are wondering whether there is some way to integrate this admittedly low popcon package into Debian 9.5 (whenever this might be released).
While we can certainly do a backport not all users will realise / profit from this. On Fri, May 04, 2018 at 04:01:48AM +0000, olivier sallou wrote: > Le jeu. 3 mai 2018 21:55, Andreas Tille <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 02:58:58PM +0000, olivier sallou wrote: > > > > > > newer version in sid (1.0.42-2) added a patch to allow new perl release. > > A > > > quick test on sid works (at least no error, just calling program with no > > > argument), so maybe backporting this release would do the job > > > > Ahhh, right - I remember that Tatiana had to do some heavy patching. > > > > > > We definitely need some CI test for this package obviously. > > > > That was also done by Tatiana. > > > > However, a backport does not really close a bug in stretch and the issue > > is also not really a security issue, right? > > > > This is indeed not a security issue, but package is unusable. Backport > would at least make software available. > I don't know know what is usual debian policy regarding this use case. I > suppose it occured multiple times. > > I can't be sure that sid version is really working, it just does not show > any error. Could tatiana do some 'real' testing? As far as I understood Tatiana she did some effort to make the program functional. She has done some real life tests. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
