Nicholas D Steeves <s...@debian.org> writes:

> Manphiz <manp...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Nicholas D Steeves <s...@debian.org> writes:
>>> Manphiz <manp...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> Manphiz <manp...@gmail.com> writes:
> [snip]
>>> Then finalise the changelog and build the package.
>>>
>>
>> Done as well.
>
> Thanks!
>
>>> Finally, learn about what an "nmudiff" is, and file one at the relevant
>>> bug.
>>>
>>
>> To be careful I'd like to have you take another look before doing so[1]
>> :)
>
> I pulled from your remote and noted the requested updates.  It looks
> good to me :)
>

Great, thanks!

>> BTW, I'm not a DD or DMD yet so I'm probably not able to submit to
>> delayed queue yet, right?
>
> Right, the upload to the delayed queue using dput is something else, and
> any uploads you make to ftp-master will not succeed.  I'm not sure if
> mentors.debian.net has a delayed queue, and I can't see how that would
> be useful--other than for practise.  Did you find the relevant section
> in the Developer's Reference?
>

Uploaded to mentors[1].  Tried to search for NMU and mentors related
contents in the Developer's Reference but didn't find much.  I guess
mentors should be safer than the delayed queue.

> Before we get to the upload you need to submit an nmudiff of the source
> package.  On a related note, if you don't know about these yet,
> "msmtp-mta" and "apt-file" are really useful.  Msmtp-mta is an
> alternative to other MTAs (useful for laptops, and Spwhitton told me
> about apt-file :)  It's technically possible to use debdiff, but
> "nmudiff" is a tool like "reportbug", but I'm not sure if nmudiff will
> function without an mta, unlike reportbug.
>

Also sent the nmudiff to this bug.  Good thing that my postfix still
works :)

> Best,
> Nicholas
>


[1] https://mentors.debian.net/package/silversearcher-ag/
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