On 14 July 2017 at 00:59, Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> wrote: > I re-factored the patches slightly to group more logically and added > in a minor "don't be redundant" item for the switch to debhelper 10. > I'm not sure why "bts show --mbox" is providing bogus metadata about > the patches. Here is the new summary. The new patches at attached > and I force pushed to the remote I mentioned in my last email: > > Summary (Important, Normal, Minor, Wishlist): > > I 0001-Override-dh_auto_clean-to-work-around-upstream-bug-w.patch
Applied. > M 0002-Ignore-.pc-the-quilt-state-tracking-dir.patch > * I read that this is supposed to be standard in dgit repos True, but upstream tarball ships .gitignore, and i'd rather not patch upstream .gitignore =/ I personally have a global ignore setup on my machine to ignore .pc, or e.g. you can use local per-repository ignore. So i'm not taking this for now. > I 0003-Drop-btrfs-convert-Closes-824895-854489.patch > * And also apply this for stretch-update Applied. > N 0004-Move-all-binaries-back-to-sbin-Closes-786893.patch > * Completely up to you, of course ;-) Hmmmm...... maybe i should give up on this one and apply it. > N 0005-Update-Source-because-Chris-Mason-s-branch-hasn-t-be.patch Applied. > I 0006-Exclude-non-free-RFC-BCP78-files-affects-test-suite.patch The code from RFC 6234 is under Simplified BSD License see sha.h. How is this non-free / what am I missing that you have spotted? > I 0007-4.6.1-1-did-not-fix-package-license.patch > * And also apply this for stretch-update Applied. > I 0008-Add-dversionmangle-to-handle-dfsg-version-suffix.patch On hold, until 0006 is discussed. > I 0009-Update-copyright-for-new-locations-of.patch > * And also apply this for stretch-update Applied. > W 0010-d-control-add-whitespace-cosmetic-fix.patch Applied. > N 0011-debian-watch-Switch-to-version-4-and-add-repacksuffi.patch Simply updated to v4 without any other changes due to 0006. > N 0012-Drop-btrfs-tools-transitional-dummy-package.patch > * Can be safely dropped now, because Stretch was released with > the transitional package https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/btrfs-progs But not yet Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So 16.04 LTS was still with btrfs-tools, thus ideally I would want to drop this transitional package in May 2018, after 18.04 LTS has been released. Is that ok? > N 0013-Switch-to-debhelper-10-and-automatically-generated-d.patch > * No time like the present, right? :-) Ack, with dropping btrfs-tools-dbg transitional package, because nobody cares =) > N 0014-Update-changelog.patch > * Please delete entries for patches you reject > Instead of this, I simply used $ gbp dch to generate the changelog entries from the git commit messages and thus matches what has been applied. They are not as pretty, but I hope that is ok. -- Regards, Dimitri.