hi, thanks for taking care of the release! On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 06:11:38PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > Control: tag -1 + moreinfo > > Hi Filippo, hi bcache-tools maintainers, > > [I'm not on the release team, just trying to give a hand.] > > Filippo Giunchedi wrote (15 Nov 2014 00:30:48 GMT) : > > This package didn't make it in time for the freeze, however jessie ships > > with a > > bcache-capable kernel so I think it is important to have userspace tools > > available. > > I acknowledge that giving Debian Jessie users the means to use bcache > feels somewhat important strategically, which *might* be a good enough > reason to make an exception to the freeze policy on this one. > > On the other hand: > > * Is there any strong reason why this use case cannot be addressed > via jessie-backports? (if it were *that* important to have in > Jessie, I guess the maintainers would probably have had it > uploaded way earlier)
Yeah backports would work in this case > * This package was accepted into Debian for the first time less than > 3 weeks ago. What kind of testing has it seen? some debian users are running bcache-tools even now, https://qa.debian.org/popcon.php?package=bcache-tools it has been uploaded to fedora in may 2014, https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/bcache-tools/ anyways, wheezy-backports will do thanks, filippo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-release-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141121092621.ge16...@esaurito.net
