gnash in Jessie

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

On 2014-12-09 14:47, Gabriele Giacone wrote:
> I'd like to know how to proceed to get gnash back in testing/jessie,
> just to avoid doing rejectable uploads/unblock requests.

Unblock bugs are fine for pre-approvals - better that than your mail 
gets lost, which nearly happened with this one.

> In April, gnash 0.8.11~git20140419-1 was in testing. 0.8.11~git20140708
> upstream snapshot was uploaded three months later but it never reached
> testing because of FTBFS on armel, see #754311.
> Since nobody seems interested in working either on fixing std::future 
> on
> armv5 or reverting std::future changes only on gnash, I would upload a
> 0.8.11~git20140708.20140419-1 as below (d/changelog since
> 0.8.11~git20140419-1):

I'm not enthusiastic about this. The bug was filed in July; gnash was 
removed from testing in September and the deadlines for freezing and 
deepening the freeze were 5th November/5th December. That's a long time 
to fix this RC bug.

One of the things we consider is how well maintainers will be able to 
react to problems in stable - remember the lifetime there is at least 
three years. gnash is a good candidate for needing security fixes during 
that time. On the other hand, popcon is relatively high for this 
package.

I'm genuinely torn. I'd be open to persuasion, but please file an 
unblock request if you're serious about this.

Thanks.

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