On 2012-07-04 22:14, Andreas Rönnquist wrote: > Hey > Hi,
> I have done some work on the recently orphaned libircclient package, > (O/ITA: at [1]), updated it to the latest release, updated packaging to > current standards, and amongst other things made it Multiarch aware, and > enabled hardening in the build. (It hadn't been updated since 2009 > previously, so there were quite some stuff to do). See [2] for details > on my changes. > > [...] > > Would anybody be interested in this, and perhaps help out getting a > freeze exception so that we don't have to be stuck with this aged > package for a complete release cycle? > > [...] > Do you think there is any chance to get this into Wheezy? > > (CC'ing my standard sponsor - Are you interested in this, or are you > busy with release-related work, Niels?) > While I appreciate your changes and that you are picking up an orphaned package, I fear the changes are "too much" for unstable given that Wheezy is frozen. This is especially true if it involves a transition that has not been pre-approved. I am open to sponsoring minimal changes to the existing package where permitted by the freeze policy (see [1]). Or even uploading the new version to experimental. > Help would be very much appreciated - > /Andreas > [email protected] > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=674882 > [2] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/libircclient.git > [3] http://packages.debian.org/megaglest > [4] http://packages.debian.org/pokerth ~Niels [1] http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
