Bug#861867: unblock: debsums/2.2.1

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Axel Beckert:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package debsums 2.2.1.
> 
> It mitigates an issue with false positives in piuparts. See
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689508#67 and the
> following comments.
> 
> Andreas Beckmann verified with a previously known false positive that
> the patch works as expected, see
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=689508#103
> 
> debdiff | diffstat against 2.2 from Debian Testing:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Full debdiff attached, too.
> 
> So please...
> 
> unblock debsums/2.2.1
> 
> [...]

I am a bit concerned with changing the default at this time of the
freeze.  Could we make the --no-ignore-obsolete the default for stretch
and then have piuparts use --ignore-obsolete for now?  That should be
"safer" (read: less likely to unforeseen consequences).

Thanks,
~Niels