[Monotone-debian] Bug#527314: considering preparing NMU of botan-devel for bug 527461

[Zack Weinberg]

It's been a week or so and there's been no fix for botan-devel bug
527461 (SONAME bumped without binary package name change).  Meanwhile
there *has* been a new upstream release of my package, monotone, which
depends on botan.

1) Would an NMU of botan-devel to be welcome? The fix seems pretty
straightforward, except that I'm not 100% sure what you (Adeodato)
meant when you said the shlibs file for libbotan1.8 v1.8.2 is "bogus".
 Is it just the absence of (>= 1.8.2-1) at the end of the line?

2) Assuming I did such an NMU, should I wait to upload monotone until
after that NMU has hit unstable?

Note that I would need a sponsor for the NMU (my usual sponsor for
monotone has very little time to spend on Debian these days).

Thanks,
zw