On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 08:38:51PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2012-09-16 at 19:53 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > > > My patch does not seem to have been committed to the SVN repository, > > could someone do that please? > > Apparently I need an ack on my patch to devref about the procedures > needed when re-introducing packages. I would appreciate it if someone > from the debian-qa list (CCed) could take a look at the patch and > suggest if the patch needs to be changed or is suitable for committing. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=20;filename=reintroducing-packages.patch;att=1;bug=685039
Hi Paul, I'm looking at this now. I agree with most of your patch. I'm having doubts on this paragraph : | <para> | You should base your work on the latest packaging available that is suitable. | That might be the latest version from <literal>unstable</literal>, which will | still be present in the <ulink url="&snap-debian-org;">snapshot archive</ulink>. | Or the version control system used by the previous maintainer might contain | newer packaging. Check if the control file of the previous package contained | any headers linking to the version control system for the package and if it | still exists. | </para> I suggest to replace the paragraph quoted above by these two paragraphs : | <para> | You should base your work on the latest packaging available that is suitable. | That might be the latest version from <literal>unstable</literal>, which will | still be present in the <ulink url="&snap-debian-org;">snapshot archive</ulink>. | </para> | <para> | The version control system used by the previous maintainer might contain useful | changes, so it might be a good idea to have a look there. Check if the control | file of the previous package contained any headers linking to the version | control system for the package and if it still exists. | </para> Other than that, I read good info in your patch, so I think it's a good addition. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
