Folks, the Debian Jessie freeze is coming up quickly. I do not think the question of ownership of the package are productive at this point.
3.2 seems to be upstream's stable release at this point. It would seem like a bad idea to ship Jessie with 2.x, but if that's all we can manage, let's do it. Hamish, you seemed to be saying that the FTP masters rejected a previous version of the package: what was the reason? Sharing this here will save everyone (and especially the FTP masters) a lot of time. You were also mentionning issues about the package mentionned in the "last post in the ITP", which I assume you mean: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538067#159 I think the major issue that Andreas mentionned there is the "DFSG-tarball" generation: the script should be in the debian/ directory so the source can be regenerated easily without requiring access the SVN repo. The script I could find is this: http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-grass/packages/opencpn/tarballs/get_latest_from_git.sh?view=co&revision=HEAD&content-type=text%2Fplain .. but that script seems to generate a tarball based on the git repository, and doesn't seem to checkout any specific tag, so I doubt it will work unmodified. There were also issues with the debian/rules targets for repeated builds. Andreas, was there other things you were thinking should be fixed with the package? Finally, did anyone take a look at that PPA? Why aren't we just using that debian package?? https://launchpad.net/~opencpn/+archive/ubuntu/opencpn Thanks for the feedback, A. -- That's one of the remarkable things about life: it's never so bad that it can't get worse. - Calvin
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