On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 10:51:36PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> > Wow, two weeks? I uploaded a new version of f2fs-tools back in July,
> > with the same issue (SONAME bump), and it's still not gotten through
> > NEW.
> >
> > I had assumed everyone was waiting 5-6+ months to get through NEW....
>
> It seems to differ depending on the package. Every month the qgis
> package has to go through NEW due to SONAME bumps as well, and this is
> usually processed within a week or two. Possibly because the changes
> since the last time it was in NEW is limited.
>
> In March netcdf will be in NEW for a year, a number of subsequent
> upstream releases have accumulated there. I suspect this may be another
> case where the package got stuck an needs an intervention to get it
> acceptable again.
>
> Asking for explicit review of a package via email or IRC tends to work
> reasonably well.
Thanks, I'll try that. I hadn't sent any e-mail pings because I
didn't to nag what appeared to be a massively overloaded ftp-master
team....
- Ted
