Re: RFS/package review

[Jonas Meurer <mejo@debian.org>]

Hello,

Peymaneh Nejad wrote:
> > If you are using sbuild, you can build locally with a --extra-package
> > option
> >
> > > It depends on a newer version of golang-github-klauspost-cpuid-dev 
> > > than is
> > > in the repos. I did a fork of the package
> > > (https://salsa.debian.org/peymaneh/golang-github-klauspost-cpuid) for
> > > testing until the issue is resolved
> > > (https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=989624)
> > > Changelogs have set distribution=experimental.
> >
> > Consider doing similar changes for this one (with d/experimental 
> > branch along with a mail to
> > maintainer) as I suggested to do it for
> > golang-github-masterminds-semver-dev in my other mail
>
> Okay.

Quick comment here: wouldn't it be more straight-forward to simply ping 
the maintainer(s) of the packages in question first and ask for 
permission to upload a newer upstream release? That way, an extra upload 
to experimental could be avoided.

Kind regards,
 jonas

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