Hi FTP masters, we have a question about updating dijitso to the new version 2017.1.
Johannes Ring is the upstream author and a Debian Maintainer (but not full DDeveloper). We're lucky to have him so closely involved in the Debian maintenance of dijitso and the other FEniCS packages. Lately Johannes tried to upload dijitso 2017.1 to experimental but the system blocked him, citing insufficient permissions. Certainly I could do the upload but we wanted to understand what the block was. The package names are the same, python-dijitso etc, so it's not a question of passing the NEW queue. Johannes has independently uploaded new versions of the other packages before, e.g. fiat 2016.2, ffc 2016.1, etc. So the problem is not simply about uploading a new version with a new orig tarball. Can you help us understand what's blocking him from uploading dijitso 2017.1 (to experimental)? Drew
