[Pkg-sympa-devel] Bug#717493: pu: package sympa/6.1.11~dfsg-5.1~deb7u1

[Adam D. Barratt]

Control: tags -1 + pending

On 2014-04-17 22:46, Emmanuel Bouthenot wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 02:24:24PM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> I'm slightly torn on this one. Whilst the patch seems "obviously
>> correct", it's not applied to the package in unstable, which is
>> usually a requirement for accepting a patch for stable. There's an
>> argument that it's unlikely that anyone will try to update from
>> squeeze's sympa to jessie's without having upgraded perl in between,
>> but conversely the patch should work fine with the package in
>> unstable.
>> 
>> Are there any plans to apply the patch, or otherwise update the
>> package, in unstable?
> 
> This fix apply on a Debian patch[1] which has been merged upstream[2] 
> in
> sympa 6.1.19 and the fix itself was applied a few commits later[3].
> 
> I'm currently working on the packaging of sympa 6.1.20. It should be
> ready to be uploaded in unstable within the next few days.

Thanks.

Given how close we are to the upload window for 7.5 closing (over this 
weekend), I'm prepared to accept the fix as-is on the assumption that it 
will get to unstable in the very near future, so please go ahead with 
the upload for stable.

Regards,

Adam