Bug#598957: What are the chances for a one-line-patch for a non-RC bug to still get into squeeze?

[Alexander Kurtz]

Hi,

mdadm has got a bug[1] which makes it send unnecessary mail every month.
Florian Hinzmann <fh at debian.org> suggested[2] a trivial patch:

root at marvin:~# diff -u /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray.20101209.dist.not-quiet /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray
--- /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray.20101209.dist.not-quiet	2010-09-03 11:11:00.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray	2010-12-09 15:29:38.000000000 +0100
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@
         wait=$((wait - 1))
         resync_pid=$(ps -ef | awk -v dev=$array 'BEGIN { pattern = "^\\[" dev "_resync]$" } $8 ~ pattern { print $2 }')
         if [ -n "$resync_pid" ]; then
-          echo "$PROGNAME: I: selecting $ionice I/O scheduling class for resync of $array." >&2
+          [ $quiet -lt 1 ] && echo "$PROGNAME: I: selecting $ionice I/O scheduling class for resync of $array." >&2
           ionice -p "$resync_pid" $arg
           break
         fi

This would fix the issue in the same way, in which the problem is
addressed in the rest of the code (attached for reference).

The maintainer thinks[3], that it's too late for squeeze now. Is he
right, or would there be a realistic chance to get this really small,
yet very useful patch still into squeeze?

Best regards

Alexander Kurtz

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598957
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598957#19
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598957#29
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