On Tue, 31 Aug, 2021, 10:25 am Nilesh Patra, <nil...@debian.org> wrote:
> > One last blocker is the build-dep on >> golang-github-prometheus-client-golang-dev >> >> I have contacted its maintainers but did not receive an answer since. I >> wonder >> would it be OK to do a backport of the required module (instead of an >> upgrade) >> as proposed here[2] and do a team upload to experimental? >> > > Backporting patch should be OK, I tend to think. But maybe the maintainers > didn't see the bug report yet. > Can you CC the maintainers on that bug report once and prod them again? > If there's no response for a week or so, we'll upload to -experimental- > and inform the maintainers about the same. > Sounds fair? > Or, maybe it's cheaper if you update to the latest, and you run ratt once. If nothing breaks, we could directly push to unstable too, to avoid the trip from exp -> unstable. If something does break, and it can be fixed without touching many packages, that'd be a sensible route too, IMO
