Request for kvirc freeze exception.

[Raúl Sánchez Siles]

 Hi!

  (Debian KDE Extras Team mail address corrected)

El Jueves, 12 de julio de 2012, Cyril Brulebois escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> and thanks for checking with us.
> 
> Raúl Sánchez Siles <rasasi78 at gmail.com> (06/07/2012):
> >   Since I don't have upload rights I requested regular uploaders
> > first, then kde- extras team for sponsoring. The situation was such
> > that I failed to manage time left to freeze properly and upload didn't
> > happen. Moreover upstream released the 4.2.0 version, which I'm
> > proposing now and which differs slightly with my sponsoring requests.
> > I'm asking now considering kvirc package 4:4.2.0-1 into wheezy, Taking
> > into account [2], I'd like to support my petition on the following
> > 
> > points:
> >   · Bugs 658058 and 669189 matches multiarch and hardening flags release
> >   goals, respectively.
> 
> We could consider that.
> 
> >   · All packages generated are priority optional or extra, and
> > 
> > therefore unlikely to harm any other parts of the system. There is no
> > other debian package, excluding those generated by kvirc source
> > package, that depends on it.
> 
> Noted, but that alone won't make us give you carte blanche.
> 
> >   · New upstream release include a very high density of translation
> > updates. For instance, full debdiff [3] shows 646 files changed, 99946
> > insertions(+), 72202 deletions(-) whereas debdiff [4], excluding po
> > dir shows 305 files changed, 5472 insertions(+), 6656 deletions(-)
> 
> Even excluding translation updates (which is at least for now very OK
> according to our freeze policy), that's still huge.
> 
> >   · New upstream release starts 4.2.x major versions, Historically
> > there have been 1 or 2 upstream minor revisions which we (debian) may
> > profit from, specially as regards with security or serious issues. If
> > 4.2.0 is not deployed in Wheezy our base version will be
> > 4.1.3+20111124.svn5988-1, based on a development snapshot. From the
> > maintainers point of view, basing on a stable release is more than
> > convenient.
> 
> I can understand that, but that's unfortunate it got released so late as
> far as the wheezy freeze is concerned.
> 
> >   · One extra cosmetic-point is that this upload means zero bug
> > package.  Something that I guess every package maintainer would like
> > to see for his packaged stuff :)
> 
> Sorry, but totally irrelevant. :p
> 
> 
> To summarize, not sure what to advise for this package. Surely the
> proposed changes are much larger than what I'd like at this point of the
> release cycle.
> 
> Mraw,
> KiBi.

  Thanks for your answer. My apologise for the delay, vacancy were on its way.

  Given your answer and provided there are no other opinions here I decided to 
prepare a package[0] backporting just the points considered. This is the 
changelog:

 kvirc (4:4.1.3+20111124.svn5988-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Updated debhelper build-depends to better cope with multiarch.
   * Fix "must not be "Multi-Arch: same"" kvirc is Multi-Arch: foreign
     (Closes: #658058)
   * Actually provide valid -dbg package. Added 30_upstream_build-g
   * Fix "Hardening flags missing". Applying suggested changes.
     (Closes: #669189) Thanks to Simon Ruderich.

[0] 
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_4.1.3+20111124.svn5988-2.dsc

  Please, let me know if this approach is acceptable to you and if I can do 
anything else to help about this issue.

  Regards,

-- 
     Raúl Sánchez Siles
----->Proud Debian user<-----
Linux registered user #416098
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