On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:44:50PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 13, 2007 at 09:00:02PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > > > I see that a "Build-Depends: debmake" has been added to this package. > > > However, the package uses its own debian/debstd, which is a very > > > ancient version. > > > So this fix is incomplete, please use debstd from debmake, the ancient > > > version in debian/debstd is *completely* unsupported. > > How is that an RC bug? > I don't claim this bug to be RC (you can downgrade if you think it's not), > but I strongly recommend that it's fixed properly before entering testing. Ok, it's been fixed now anyway, making it a moot issue. :) > > Maintainers don't usually ask that third parties maintain their > > debian/* directories for them. > I know that I'm not asked to maintain debian/debstd in the tcptrace > package, but I feel very uncomfortable with the idea that it took me > one year to fix #270900 (a bug which should have been serious if it > wasn't because removing debmake would create even more RC bugs), and > then people "prefer" to use their own jurassic debian/debstd. Sure, I can understand that. There are lots of bugs that I'm not comfortable with, though, that I don't think we should hold up the release for. :) Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
