On 6 September 2017 at 15:12, Mattia Rizzolo wrote: | On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 07:37:07AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | > It is a trivial "monstly non-bug" bug report. But the release team won't act, | > so I am now resigned to waiting. I explained the case in | > | > https://bugs.debian.org/868558 | > | > with any of the few (40-some now) packages still affected. They load and | > function too for me. (My test was not exhaustive though). | > | > I am frustrated, but I can not get any change to happen. I tried an email to | > debian-devel last week, but to no avail. | | I wonder, what's blocking you from just sourcefully uploading all of | those packages? Being only 40 would make it quite feasible IMO, and I | bet there could be something you could change too (worse case, you could | just bump Std-Ver :P).
I rather seriously considered it. I need a free weekend (not this one), and maybe a volunteer (or two) to help. We could just fetch the respective packages, do a manual .1 version and upload to the DELAYED queue. Shall we? Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected]
