[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#897605: profphd failure in stretch

[olivier sallou]

Le jeu. 3 mai 2018 21:55, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> a écrit :

> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 02:58:58PM +0000, olivier sallou wrote:
> >
> > newer version in sid (1.0.42-2) added a patch to allow new perl release.
> A
> > quick test on sid works (at least no error, just calling program with no
> > argument), so maybe backporting this release would do the job
>
> Ahhh, right - I remember that Tatiana had to do some heavy patching.
>
> > > We definitely need some CI test for this package obviously.
>
> That was also done by Tatiana.
>
> However, a backport does not really close a bug in stretch and the issue
> is also not really a security issue, right?
>

This is indeed not a security issue, but package is unusable. Backport
would at least make software available.
I don't know know what is usual debian policy regarding this use case. I
suppose it occured multiple times.

I can't be sure that sid version is really working, it just does not show
any error. Could tatiana do some 'real' testing?


> Do you want to discuss this with the release team?
>
> Kind regards
>
>       Andreas.
>
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> http://fam-tille.de
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