Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (14/10/2007): > Thanks for your NMU Cyril. However I think the above is excessive for > a simple FTBFS NMU for an otherwise maintained package.
I'm sorry for that. I'm usually tempted to make the packages I upload lintian-clean, which is often required, or at least strongly recommended by the sponsors. Since last upload happened in 2006, and since the maintainer didn't answer on an RC bug, I thought that a bit of help would be welcome, which is the purpose of an NMU. Again, sorry for being so intrusive, but I didn't encounter any reticence about my previous patches &| NMU until now (I was given green light several times), and I'm not that confident about separating the fixes for only-important-bugs in several patches, and posting them on individual bugs where there's been no answer for hundreds of days, even when the patch is already included (I'm not speaking of this bug, or of this package, or of this maintainer in particular, just a general remark on the RC bugs I already looked at/worked on). Shall we open bugs for each and every problem encountered, with individual patch, and then check them regularly through the QA? Or fix them all while we're at it, and then be slapped by the maintainer, and eventually some of them reverted or fixed in a different way? I took the second road until now, increasing my blame counter from 0 to 1. > For example the Makefile.{am,in} COPYING change: this is purely > cosmetic. I disagree that your solution is the best; maintaining > patches to upstream sources is a nuisance, while fixing things up > afterwards in debian/rules is easier. ACK. I must confess I don't even remember why I did that this way… Cheers, -- Cyril Brulebois
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