On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:21:07 -0700, tony mancill wrote: > > (What's missing is some explanation in d/copyright how and why the > > +ds version is created, I suppose. Oh, and a note in d/changelog that > > debian/patches/02_update_buildtime.patch was refreshed.) > > Thank you very much for the analysis, walk-thru, and patch.
You're welcome! > One question - why do you think an update to d/copyright is required? > The fixed tarball addresses the ./debian/ being inadvertently included > in the tarball and restores the upstream files that had been deleted, so > I'm not clear on how the copyright really changes. It seems mostly that > I need to add an extended mea culpa to the d/changelog. Right, I guess I was a bit confused :) My line of thought was: d/copyright requires to include the origin of the upstream source, which means that for repacked tarballs a note about what/why/how was changed should be included. [0]- But in this case -- as you say -- it's only a one-time fix, and in order to bring back the pristine tarball. > I'm also wondering if I can get away with addressing the open bug about > a bashism in the package (very simple patch), since I believe that was a > release goal (for lenny?). Looking at the freeze policy [1], this should be covered by "3. fixes for severity: important bugs in packages of priority: optional or extra, only when this can be done via unstable;" Cheers, gregor [0] I don't find this part in policy right now, just in the Copyright-Format 1.0 spec: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#comment-field [1] http://release.debian.org/wheezy/freeze_policy.html -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- BOFH excuse #138: BNC (brain not connected) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
