On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 12:41:23PM +0200, Roland Mas wrote: > fort77 is in the dependency chain of one of my packages, and it's currently > blocked from testing because of an FTBFS. I was having a look at it, and > found that the packaging was rather old-school :-) So I took the liberty of > rebooting it using current tools and methods (format "3.0 (quilt)", > git-buildpackage, pristine-tar, dh, and so on). Somehow that fixed the > FTBFS, so I pushed the results to a new Salsa repository at > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fort77
> Would you mind if I uploaded this new version to unstable as an NMU? I > realize it's quite the opposite of usual practices for NMUs (minimal patches > and so on), so I'd rather ask beforehand. I feel that not only the package > doesn't seem to actually require much maintenance, but even when it does > it's going to be easier with modern tools. Please don't do this, especially not the conversion to git-buildpackage - every time I've tried to use that it's just been an absolutely miserable experience, making it much harder to work on whatever package I've tried. I don't understand what issue this would be causing with testing, you shouldn't have a versioned dependency?
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