Hello,

While looking for some place to contribute to Debian (using the how-can-i-help 
command), I came across an RFA for libtorrent-rasterbar [1]. It seems it's 
already being taken care of, which is great.
 
However, after looking at the package's tracker [2], I have a couple of 
questions:

a) The package is currently marked for autoremoval in a few weeks due to 2 
grave bugs ([3], [4]), but AFAIK a new version which fixes these bugs has 
already reached testing (version [5], which should contain commit [6] with the 
fix). Why have the bugs not been closed? Is it just a matter of time, or is 
there some other blocking issue that I missed?

b) There is another bug with possible security implications ([7]) that should 
also be already fixed in version [5]. Would it be reasonable to request a 
backport of this package for bullseye? I tried creating one locally with sbuild 
and it seems to work well enough (albeit with admittedly limited testing for 
now on my part).

Thanks a lot, and apologies in advance if all this is somehow trivial or 
non-relevant.

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/995076
[2] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libtorrent-rasterbar
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/992575
[4] https://bugs.debian.org/999422
[5] 
https://tracker.debian.org/news/1287318/libtorrent-rasterbar-1214-11-migrated-to-testing/
[6] 
https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/commit/a6d7e286774023267fd3067080e5a3adf50f533b
[7] https://bugs.debian.org/987120

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