Re: kicad 0.20140622+bzr4027-3 backport to wheezy-backports?

[Vincent Cheng <vcheng@debian.org>]

Hi Andrew,

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 5:57 AM, Andrew Bradford
<andrew@bradfordembedded.com> wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> On 03/16/2015 01:26 PM, Gary wrote:
>>
>> On 10/03/15 13:32, Andrew Bradford wrote:
>>>
>>> The dsc file is at:
>>>
>>> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kicad/kicad_0.20140622+bzr4027-3~bpo70+1.dsc
>>>
>>> The upload to mentors can be found at:
>>> http://mentors.debian.net/package/kicad
>>
>>
>> You may want to double check the changes file, the QA info on mentors
>> shows https://lintian.debian.org/tags/backports-changes-missing.html
>>
>> I don't think Kicad has previously been back-ported, so you likely just
>> need to include all change log entries since the stable version. The url
>> above links to additional info on how to do so via the -v switch.
>
>
> Thanks for taking time to review my upload!
>
> The passing of the -v switch to dpkg-buildpackage (dpkg-genchanges) wasn't
> entirely clear to me from the documentation but now reading it again you are
> correct and I should pass in the -v switch along with the most recent stable
> version number.
>
> I've done this, rebuilt, and reuploaded to the same addresses above (I hope
> this was the right course of action, if not, please let me know).

I can no longer find kicad on mentors.d.n. Are you still looking for a
sponsor for your backported package?

Regards,
Vincent