* Niels Thykier [2010-07-13 14:02:55 +0200]:
> On 2010-07-13 12:45, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> > I'm looking at svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-java/trunk/commons-daemon (while
> > working on a private fix for bug #578661) and noticed a few problems
> > specifically with r10449:
> > 
> > 1) The changes made in r8513 were reverted for no obvious reason. 
> > In particular, the debian/watch file is still/again specifying an
> > obsolete location for the upstream packages.
> > 
> > 2) Some of the changes described in debian/changelog, and present in the
> > actual package .diff.gz, haven't been checked into svn. This is true at
> > least of the changes to src/native/unix/support/apsupport.m4; I'm guessing
> > that all changes to files outside the debian/ subtree are missing.
> > 
> 
> I would suspect 1) was a mistake but I haven't checked.
> 
> About 2) though, have you checked that they have not been converted into
> a standard-alone patch in debian/patches? If not this could be a real issue.

There is no debian/patches directory in this package yet. That's one of the
reasons I brought up the idea of using quilt.

To me, having mismatches between the published packages and the svn repository
feels a bit like a time bomb. No harm done yet (that's why I didn't report it
through the BTS) but it seemed worth flagging.

> Regardless, you are more than welcome to fix this/these issue(s). If you
> are not already a member of the Java Team, you can apply for membership[1].

Maybe at a later stage, once I have a working 1.0.2 package.


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