On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:10:01 +0200, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Dear Release Managers, > > during Summer I adopted the orphaned library package "twofish" > and I extended it to build also a shared library as well as > providing the very first documentation in the form of Docbook > source for a manual page. > > Last week I expanded the documentation and I also removed the > macro invokation "-D_REENTRANT" according to policy 3.9.1. > That package build is not yet aged into ten days, but in case > you intend to reject it in testing, please tell me. Since it > essentially only involves improves documentation I was thinking > it to be a natural candidate for testing. > Only RC bug fixes are "natural candidates" at this point. Anyway, unblocked 0.3-3.
> However, now I got the idea of a final touch to this package,
> really making it worthy for Squeeze, namely adding to <twofish.h>
> the standard C++-wrapper
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> extern "C" {
> #endif
>
> Before building and seeking a sponsor for such a package, I would
> like to make sure that such a change would not make the Release Team
> reject the corresponding change, thus also invalidating the update
> that already has passed into "unstable".
>
I don't think that additional change would warrant a freeze exception.
Cheers,
Julien
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