Sigh... I give up. We should leave 0.6.2-2.1 in wheezy and take our chances with it.
I personally believe this kind of thing is a violation of the Debian Social Contract #4 *"Our priorities are our users and free software*" but it seems most people in Debian think that the policy trumps everything else. We have been working hard on making this package work well for users, we have been testing it widely. We have a version of this package that we know is working well, and it is being prevented from inclusion for many months now. Multiple upstream devs, me included, have stated 0.6.3 is a better release for Debian. 0.6.3-3 didn't make the freeze because of a small change which broke on kFreeBSD, which we then quickly fixed and uploaded to unstable. olsrd is a minor, optional package, the risk of including our unblock request is tiny to Debian. But having a solid, working olsrd in Debian is very important to the people trying to make OLSR mesh work well. I guess we are forced to work out of Ubuntu and let the Debian people fend for themselves. That is not why I became a DD... but it looks like the only option I have here... I guess I should take my rant to debian-private rather than the BTS.
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