On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 17:19:10 +0200 Sven Hoexter <s...@stormbind.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 10:56:47PM +0300, Teemu Toivola wrote: > > vnstat (1.18-2.1) unstable; urgency=medium > > > > * Non-maintainer upload. > > * Changes by Christian Göttsche > > - d/tests: run as root to fix debci (Closes: #907020) > > - d/control: bump to std version 4.2.1 (no further changes) > > > > -- Teemu Toivola <t...@iki.fi> Tue, 23 Jul 2019 00:47:18 +0300 > > What's the situation of this package, are you now taking over > the Debian packaging as well? Is Christian just missing a sponsor? > > From a technical perspective the policy is already at 4.4, though > that should not matter so much in this specific case. See the discussion in bug #907020 [1] for all details. The short version is that in August 2018 Christian introduced new autopkgtest tests in 1.18-2 which didn't work due to lack of root access. #907020 was opened as a result and Christian made the fix during the same day in Salsa. However, for some reason, that fix was never uploaded. Last week the severity of #907020 was changed from normal to serious placing the package to the autoremoval queue. As I wasn't able to get in touch with Christian, I concluded that doing a NMU for the changes he had already made in Salsa would be the right thing to do. That's why the policy bump is to version 4.2.1 as I didn't want to mix in any of my own changes. I'm hoping that Christian would continue as maintainer of this package but he appears to be inactive right now and I haven't managed to get in contact via email or IRC. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907020 -Teemu
