On 2017-02-07 13:38:49 [+0100], John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hi!
Hi,
> > now I understand what you mean. Earlier, while reading it, I though you
> > were asking to get them removed because I introduced them. Now I
> > understand what you emant.
>
> Ok, any idea where these changes come from?
The new upstream (I updated to 1.3.9 from 1.3.8). They redid autconf and
(for instance) renamed configure.in to configure.ac
> >> If upstream is dead, I'd suggest put your changes in a repo on github
> >> and point the Homepage field of the Debian package to that repo.
> > I am not sure whether or not upstream is dead. I would like to get as
> > little involved in this as possible and just fix what stops it getting
> > into testing. Changing the homepage field + creating a github repo looks
> > somehow like asking to become the maintainer.
>
> Where did the new upstream come from then? I'm a bit confused.
homepage in the debian package points to
http://trousers.sourceforge.net/
and the tpm-tools link on this page provides a link to 1.3.9 folder dated
2016-11-29 which contains tpm-tools-1.3.9.tar.gz I used here.
> Adrian
Sebastian