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Re: Bug#719624: Upgrading xrdp



Hi Dominik,

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 11:49:38AM +0200, Dominik George wrote:
> >>  * It only contains debian/ now.
> >
> >Do you have any reason for this?
> 
> Yes, because that's what Mike originally asked for, unless I got him wrong.

I do not see any good reason for this kind of advise.  Mike, could you
please confirm that you are against keeping the upstream source inside
the archive.  IMHO this is against a very common gbp workflow and in
this specific case I think its definitely needed.
 
> >I'm missing the background knowledge to decide this so I'll leave this
> >to you.  I have no idea about the motivation to pick a specific commit
> >and not any other - it would be soooo helpful if upstream would tag
> >releases.
> 
> The only reason for the specific commit is that it is known to work. No more, no less.

How has got this knowledge and how.
 
> I talked with upstream about making a release, and we will do so together, but this will take some more weeks. There is quite some activity upstream right now. I understand you cannot wait any longer, so we will need to work without a release for now.

Fully ACK.  Good to know that upstream is somehow convinced.

Thanks for your work on this

     Andreas. 

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