On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 06:40:18PM +0300, Teemu Toivola wrote: Hi,
> 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 see. Ok doesn't make much sense to discuss more about this one-liner or the policy version. While the later does not make much sense it won't cause any harm either. Thanks for pushing that fix forward. Sven
