Hi Carlos, Carlos Maddela wrote: > According to the Debian Package Tracker > <https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debdelta> this package is marked for > autoremoval on the 20th of December. It's not really what I had intended > when I filed this report,
But it's nevertheless correct: debdelta is unusable for quite a while, as I nearly no more see another message than "Delta is not present" when using debdelta-upgrade. > so in case Andrea cannot fix it by then, I have uploaded my fixes to > mentors: > https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/d/debdelta/debdelta_0.55+nmu1.dsc. That's appreciated, but even if someone would have sponsored that before 20th of Dec. (or 24th of Dec. to get back into testing before the soft-freeze of 5th of January), it likely wouldn't become usable again, because the server side also needs to run the new version (at least) to produce proper debdeltas there. So as far as I can see, we need Andrea to become active in this issue anyways. Only fixing the client side won't help. > I have also included the fixes for other bugs for which patches are > available, but more importantly I have worked on getting the package to > build reproducibly. I've just looked at the debdiff. Converting a package from non-debhelper to debhelper is IMHO a little bit far off for a non-maintainer upload. Chances are high that the package maintainer did not use debhelper on purpose and IMHO such a decision has to be honoured by an NMU. Currently I'd not sponsor that NMU unless I see an explicit OK from Andrea. > My changes can also be viewed in the bugfixes branch of this repo: > https://github.com/e7appew/debdelta.git. Great, so Andrea can cherry-pick single fixes if he doesn't agree with all of them. Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 `- | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE
