Bug#767022: Please reduce freeze time for cloop
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On Mon, 2014-10-27 at 20:14 +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Please reduce the freeze time for the package cloop.
>
> The rationale behind this is following:
>
> * the binary packages are harmless, i.e. no suid binaries inside, no
> systemd killing init scripts or other potential trouble makers
> * the package was removed from Testing because of an "rc" bug which was
> filed against the cloop-src binary package which didn't build with
> some kernel 3.10.x version on the user system (this is not even a
> FTBFS problem of the source package and the kernel version in
> question is history now). After my update all kernels starting with
> at least 3.12 should be supported.
That removal from testing was over a year ago now. Why could the issues
not have been resolved sooner than a few days before freeze?
More to the point, assuming I can add up, the current upload of cloop
will be eligible to migrate on the evening of November 4th anyway, which
is before the freeze comes in to force.
Regards,
Adam
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