It appears that my below request did not receive any attention as shorewall migrated today by itself. I would like to renew my request for an unblock of shorewall6, shorewall-lite, shorewall6-lite and shorewall-init.
The changes in these packages are trivial (release notes and version numbers in some of the scripts), and would help to avert a potential source of confusion among users. Regards, -Roberto On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 03:46:25PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > reopen 594144 > thanks > > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 05:04:52PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 20:13:07 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > This new upstream release is specifically targeted for Squeeze. The > > > relevant changelog entry is: > > > > > > shorewall (4.4.11.4-1) unstable; urgency=low > > > . > > > * New Upstream Version (Closes: #594144) > > > > > That's not a relevant changelog entry. It would be if 594144 was a > > request for packaging the new upstream release, and testing wasn't > > frozen. > > > > Well, the relevant entry from the upstream changelog is: > > Fix REQUIRE_INTERFACE=Yes > > Hopefully that is more relevant. > > > shorewall unblocked, the rest of them left alone. > > > I'm not sure I understand the reasoning behind this. The only changes > in the rest of the packages are the changes resulting from the change in > version number. That is, it is about as invasive as an updated > translation or updated documentation. > > While technically it is possible to have shorewall6 4.4.11.3-1 installed > alongside shorewall 4.4.11.4-1, it will likely result in confusion for > users. Upstream always releases all the packages as a group, and anyone > who uses Shorewall outside of Debian will always get them together as a > group with the same version number. And it is has also been that way > with the official Debian packages for quite some time. > > I encourage you to reconsider and permit the rest of the packages into > testing. > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sánchez > http://people.connexer.com/~roberto > http://www.connexer.com -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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