On 25 March 2013 09:30, Paul Gevers <elb...@debian.org> wrote: > Are you sure? I believe the NEW queue is ONLY accessible to the > ftp-masters, as uploads might contain non-distributable material, and > the task of the ftp-masters is exactly to prevent that entering Debian. >
I'm not sure exactly how it was done, but see the changelog entry for new package in raring, python-cffi [1]. That package is also waiting in Debian NEW, about one week behind motif. > So if that is possible, you are talking to an ftp-master, right? Then we > could just make an Ubuntu version of the package instead. > Yes, that is also an option, although 2.3.4-1 does not build in raring, but I we could try pushing 2.3.4-2 straight to Ubuntu. Furthermore, the feature freeze has already past for a long time, so > usually Ubuntu does not allow such large changes. Who are you > communicating with about this effort, please include me in the > communication. > I chatted to Stefano Rivera about this some time ago. I'll mail him and CC you. According to Motif 2.3.4's release notes [2], this is a bug fix release, so as far as upstream is concerned there aren't any new features. I did enable PNG, JPG and Xft support, but these features have been in upstream for a while and have been tested, just not in Debian/Ubuntu. [1] http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/universe/p/python-cffi/python-cffi_0.5-0ubuntu1/changelog [2] http://motif.ics.com/motif-234-release-notes
