Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 04:25:53PM +0100, Raphaël Hertzog wrote: > Version 0.3.2-2 fixes RC bug #562907 (missing dep on pybluez) that > led to the removal of the package. Note that the fixed package > was available before the removal but since the package is currently > orphaned, nobody took care of asking an unblock request here.
I'm not enthusiastic about having an orphaned package in stable, if I'm really honest. That's largely why it was removed. > Unfortunately the upload contains a few more changes which are > usually not allowed during freeze. Though they are relatively safe since > that's the kind of changes that has been made on hundreds of other python > modules... Indeed, and they are invasive enough that we would normally refuse without exceptional circumstances. > I can prepare a more targeted fix for t-p-u if you really want but I > believe that taking the package from unstable is better. FWIW I'm interested > in bringing this package back because it's a dependency that we need > for a package available in Kali Linux. Can you not provide it in Kali? I like to be kind to derivatives where we can, but an orphaned package in Debian for the convenience of a derivative feels like the wrong way for this to work. -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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