On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:04:49PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > I have been corresponding with the developer and maintainer of httperf > > [0], which I intend to adopt. The issue was that a libssl linking > > exception was needed for the package. They are currently making > > inquiries at HP as to how exaclty go about this from their end, but the > > deevloper and the maintainer both seem quite helpful and want to work > > this out as quickly as possible. It looks like they will come through > > as soon as they get approval. > > > > My question is this: since the package currently exists in > > oldstable/non-US, would it be possible to have the updated package > > (including OpenSSL linking exception and a recompile to link against > > libssl0.9.7) to make it into the next stable update? > > No. The window for new packages into sarge was closed long ago already. > I was thinking that this wasn't really a new package, since the changes are very minor and are mainly for the licensing issue. Oh well.
> > I think that since there is the potential for previous Woody users to > > have had the package installed and then still have it present after an > > upgrade to Sarge. In the (unlikely event) that security updates become > > necessary to httperf, the Sarge users won't get them. > > True, but that's the case with the other packages that were removed > due to maintainer inactivity or whatever as well. We'll have to > take that risk. > Thanks for the feedback. -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr
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