Hi Luke, I am looking into the changes that you and Jason provided, but I have a serious issue with your proposed debian/copyright file (that IIUC is already in Ubuntu, right?). There is no need to provide a new debdiff, but I like your response, before I decide what I will do.
Biggest issue: you claimed sole copyright on all files in debian/ which is completely not true. Second issue: you put the GPL license on all files in debian/ without proof that you even consulted the current maintainer or Jason. Furthermore, it is not common to choose a different license than upstream for the packaging. E.g. patches would be impossible to ship upstream in this case. Therefore I think it should be the same as upstream, as Shane and Jason didn't make a statement about that. Of course you are free to put your work under GPL, but that just means I will not use it, as I find it too unpractical in *this* case. Third issue: you forgot that the current upstream maintainer also has copyright on the source of dotconf. Much lesser addition issue: I don't agree with the way you implemented the get-orig-source target. Debian prefers to have the exact same tar ball as released by upstream. This is obtainable at the following URL: https://github.com/williamh/dotconf/releases. So I propose the attached watch file instead of your target (and maybe call uscan in the get-orig-source, but that is not much gain then). Furthermore: 1) Running autoreconf doesn't help, as you want to do this during build time. It increases the tar ball drastically and because it is running an unversioned version of autoreconf might even result in a different orig.tar, which is exactly not what you want to achieve. 2) If you use a throw-away directory, use mktmp to create a proper temporary directory. @all: apparently upstream changed the soname, so this updates needs a transition as well. This means that I need to do some more checking (all reverse build dependencies) and that we need permission from the release managers. Also the new package needs to go through NEW so it might take some time there. Paul
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