On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 12:04:17AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Dear mentors and Steve, > > I am looking for some advice concerning the new version > 1.3.3-20090920-0.1 of the package "mawk". > > It builds these binary packages: > mawk - a pattern scanning and text processing language > > The package appears to be lintian clean. > > The upload would fix these bugs: 38353, 65617, 100808, 127293, 135614, 173664, 189078, 244962, 303825, 339799, 355442, 355966, 485898, 496980, 554167 > > The previous version used dpatch and had a very old debian/rules file > that did not run the test suite, handle DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, or > cross-compile. debian/rules has been rewritten completely (the > upstream makefile cannot handle cross-compilation yet, though). All > previous patches were applied upstream, so I took the opportunity to > switch to source format 3.0 (quilt). So this is not really the > traditional sort of minimal non-maintainer upload --- it is > superficially more like a QA upload. > > I am wondering what to do next: should I pursue a 14-day delayed NMU? > Do nothing and hope some of my changes are picked up? > have you tried asking the maintainer if you could work with him? all I can see is a mail from you 3 days ago...a bit fast to pull the trigger on attempting an NMU there. also, it looks like your mail was only through the BTS. sometimes direct mail is more effective (I know it is with me personally, and I've had similar experiences with other developers). after that, have some patience.. Cheers, Ryan -- _________________________ Ryan Niebur ryanryan52@gmail.com
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