* Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofb...@debian.org> [2016-04-04 09:17 +0000]:
> Hi dear Joerg and Ricardo, do you have any issues in having me sponsoring the > debdiff? > > > The debdiff looks really good, however some things needs changes/comments: > > 1) adding yourself to uploaders needs an ack > 2) this seems to be otherwise an NMU, and I would prefer a puntual fix. Please be in mind that the fix is a new upstream version. We have to to upgrade from 0.8.3-1+b1 to 0.8.4-1, though. > However, since the debdiff of the new release is mostly due to autogenerated > files, with two little > changes, we can consider an NMU doable, even if I would prefer one maintainer > acking yourself > stepping in as uploader. > > you did a nice job here, I have nothing to add except of: > > a) did you forward patches upstream? No. I cherry picked the fix from upstreams svn repo and made this patch public via #812668 for testing > b) I usually prefer autoreconf instead of autotools-dev > c) instead of override_dh_clean I prefer a debian/clean file I only changed needful entries in d/r for fixing https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=778264 as well > b and c are just suggestions, while I would like to have an answer for a, and > for point 1/2 from > the actual maintainers/uploaders. > > cheers, and thanks for the nice work there. > (I could upload on deferred maybe, since this is an RC bug, but I won't do it > with you as uploader, I > will convert in an NMU upload then) Thanks for the support. Elimar -- 355/113: Not the famous irrational number pi, but an incredible simulation! -unknown-
