Hi, On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 05:13:12AM +1000, Kitty PC wrote: > Hi Steven, > > I just talked to one of the devs in regards with the Denial of Service > bug s/he said it has been fixed in SVN for two years and the new > release does indeed have said fix. It'd be nice to have the new
I didn't know this. I was so busy that I wasn't able to look for this properly. > release packaged up and the dependency issue fixed. The dev I spoke to > also said s/he was working on repackaging amsn for debian but due to > lack of time has not done so yet, don't know if that information > helps. > I still have the previous source code with the debian/ directory. > > On 30 May 2012 03:24, Steven Chamberlain <ste...@pyro.eu.org> wrote: > > Hi Kitty, > > > > Unfortunately the amsn package was dropped from Wheezy at the QA team > > and maintainer's request because of outstanding security issues, and > > there hadn't been a new upstream release since 2010. > > > > Having said that, it looks like upstream just this past week released > > 0.98.9... > > > > I wonder if the new release takes care of the previous concerns, or if > > it's not too late to package the new version before the freeze mid-June? > > I think it is a little late. For having aMSN again in the archive, it is needed to open an ITP report, then package it, upload it, and wait until it gets approved again by FTP masters. And given that on mid-June the freeze will happen, and the package needs to be 10 days in unstable to be eligible in testing. So I believe it is unlikely to be ready at time. > > I'd certainly like to see amsn stay around for a little longer; Â I'm not > > as happy with any other MSN/WLM client I've tried and the package still > > had ~3000 users on popcon. If there is still people interested, I can go through the procedure I wrote above and prepare a backport for wheezy later. It is quite difficult to keep working on a package which has many alternatives as this one for having compelling reasons about why we should keep it in Debian. By the way, does any of you have an idea of the status of aMSN2? Regards, -- Muammar El Khatib. Linux user: 403107. Key fingerprint = 90B8 BFC4 4A75 B881 39A3 1440 30EB 403B 1270 29F1 http://muammar.me | http://proyectociencia.org ,''`. : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
