On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 04:24:10PM +0100, Alexander Wirt wrote: > On Mon, 31 Oct 2016, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 11:16:18AM +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > > Hi Ben, > > > > > > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "autoconf". > > > > Some packages depends on the new --runstatedir option which was added > > > > in 2.69-9, > > > > before they can be built for jessie-backports. Ex connman. > > > > Is this request okay with you Ben, or do you want to handle it? > > > > > > I sponsored this upload in deferred/10, let me know if it sounds good to > > > you > > > (being in lowNMU threshold helps here :) thanks for that) > > > > Thanks for helping. I was planning to sponsor, but it's even easier > > since you got to it first. > Autoconf is a very important package and I don't think we want a backport > that is not maintained by a regular uploader.
Gianfranco, are you planning to take responsibility for uploading this as it changes in Debian proper? It is probably not a big responsibility, because autoconf changes rarely. I'm willing to sponsor the uploads.
