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Re: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#648779: [PATCH] added new homepage for upstream



Hi Paul,

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 12:07:52PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 1:05 AM, Francesca Ciceri wrote:
> 
> > Also, to clarify: so when patches are this trivial it's ok for me to
> > just commit them directly in the repo if the package is maintained under
> > the pkg-fonts umbrella? Without asking the main maintainer/uploader?
> > I really don't want to step on someone else's toes :).
> 
> I advocate the position that all fonts are maintained by everyone in
> the team when the team is set to maintainer. So yes please commit and
> upload team maintained things. Use dch --team to avoid lintian
> warnings.

Ah! dch --team is awesome. Thanks for the hint.

> > And another doubt: do I need to add an entry in the changelog each time
> > I commit a patch (and/or change something) or is this something will be
> > take care when preparing the next release?
> 
> When in doubt, add an entry since you can't know if the person doing
> the upload will review changes and update the changelog.

Ok, will do.

> > Also: does it make sense to add a changelog entry for such trivial changes?
> 
> I think it is interesting for most changelog consumers to know when
> Homepages were changed.
>
> > Sorry but I haven't really gotten the hang of the changelogs yet :)
> 
> There are some best practices in devref:
> 
> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best-pkging-practices.html#bpp-debian-changelog
> 

Thanks for the link: read and bookmarked. Sometimes I feel like there
are so many things to know in this weird packaging world that it's difficult
to keep track of all the resources. But hopefully sooner or later all
this knowledge will sediment in my brain :)

Cheers,
Francesca

-- 
"People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect,
but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint is more
like a big ball of wibbly wobbly, timey wimey... stuff"
The Doctor, Doctor Who (3x10, "Blink")

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