Bug#793633: developers-reference: discuss how to handle backports

2015-08-04 Thread Stephen Kitt
Hi, On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 22:10:39 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:46 PM, James Montgomery wrote: > > wine-mono, I've logged all the dependencies required, meticulously, > > and would now like ask you how Debian deals with such build systems > > where the build comes from t

Bug#793633: developers-reference: discuss how to handle backports

2015-08-03 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 5:46 PM, James Montgomery wrote: > wine-mono, I've logged all the dependencies required, meticulously, > and would now like ask you how Debian deals with such build systems > where the build comes from the wine-mono script. > > As you're aware, wine-mono has the custom build

Bug#793633: developers-reference: discuss how to handle backports

2015-07-30 Thread James Montgomery
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 7:14 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 6:10 PM, James Montgomery wrote: >> As a wine-development user myself who has never done an official >> backport I wouldn't mind trying my hand at backporting. Is the wiki >> for BuildingFormalBackports[0] the best p

Bug#793633: developers-reference: discuss how to handle backports

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 6:10 PM, James Montgomery wrote: > As a wine-development user myself who has never done an official > backport I wouldn't mind trying my hand at backporting. Is the wiki > for BuildingFormalBackports[0] the best place to start? Also, if this > is too big a beast to cut my te

Bug#793633: developers-reference: discuss how to handle backports

2015-07-25 Thread James Montgomery
Hi Michael, On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > x-debbugs-cc: debian-w...@lists.debian.org, > debian-backpo...@lists.debian.org, 793...@bugs.debian.org > > I received a bug against wine today, which boils down to a request for > regular backporting of the package to stable:

Bug#793633: developers-reference: discuss how to handle backports

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
x-debbugs-cc: debian-w...@lists.debian.org, debian-backpo...@lists.debian.org, 793...@bugs.debian.org Hi, Resent to correctly include the CC's above. I received a bug against wine today, which boils down to a request for regular backporting of the package to stable: http://bugs.debian.org/793551

Bug#793633: developers-reference: discuss how to handle backports

2015-07-25 Thread Michael Gilbert
package: developers-reference severity: wishlist x-debbugs-cc: debian-backpo...@lists.debian.org x-debbugs-cc: debian-w...@lists.debian.org x-debbugs-cc: 793...@bugs.debian.org x-debbugs-cc: 793551-submit...@bugs.debian.org Hi, I received a bug against wine today, which boils down to a request fo