Hi Cameron, On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:47:29PM -0800, Cameron Dale wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 3:53 AM, Sylvain Beucler <b...@beuc.net> wrote: > > Any progress on that RC issue? > > I have made some progress since it was made RC in October, but the bug > is more complicated than I first though. I will continue to work on > the solution, though my time has been limited of late by a busy work > schedule.
Ah, very cool. I hadn't seen any comments on the bug, so I assumed there was no activity on it. > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Kees Cook <k...@debian.org> wrote: > > I've filed a removal request: > > I don't think this warrants a removal from testing, for the following reasons: > > 1. Though the original bug has been open for less than a year, the bug > was not made RC (serious) until October 2009 (3 months ago), when > another user noticed a side effect of the original bug that arguably > makes it serious. > > 2. I am working on a fix for the bug, and hope to have it committed in > the next week or two, and certainly before the freeze for the squeeze > release. > > 3. The requester did not contact me (the maintainer), nor did anyone > else, before requesting the removal, as mentioned here > http://wiki.debian.org/ftpmaster_Removals: "In all cases, if there is > a maintainer and it's not you, mention the maintainer's opinion or, if > you don't know it, mention how and when you tried to contact him. If > you didn't try to contact the maintainer, do so first." I was just seeking to remove from testing, not a removal from the archive. > In any case, removal of apt-transport-debtorrent is not required, as > it is a separate package from debtorrent, and is unaffected by this > bug. apt-transport-debtorrent doesn't depend on debtorrent, and it can > be used by itself on a machine to communicate with debtorrent on a > different machine. That's totally true, apt-cache rdepends was trying to trick me and was showing me things that were Recommends as well. > I'd like to close this removal request for the above reasons, but I'm > unsure of the etiquette related to that, and so I will leave it as is > in the hopes that someone will read this message before actually > performing the removal. That's fine for me; thanks for the update on debtorrent! -Kees -- Kees Cook @debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
