Bug#1003212: hamexam: package description contains broken URL

[tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>]

Hi John,

On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 07:13:45PM +0000, John Nogatch wrote:
> > > the long package description of hamexam contains the URL
> > > http://www.arrl.org/licensing-preparation-exams
> > > which returns a 404 error.
> 
> Thanks to Daniele for reporting this bug. The URL will be fixed in hamexam 1.9

Excellent!

> >> I grabbed this to update the URL, but it looks like maybe John has some
> > work in progress on hamexam.  I see the following commit [1] on the
> > master branch, but I can't find 1.8.x in Launchpad, nor do I see any
> > updates to pristine-tar or upstream branches or corresponding tags in
> > Salsa [3].
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~jnogatch/+archive/ubuntu/hamexam shows version 1.8.1

Ah, thank you.  I didn't think to look in the PPA.

> > To update to a new upstream version, can you revert the commit to master
> > and then use `gbp import-orig` to import the version, and then push the
> > update master, upstream, and pristine-tar branches plus the
> > corresponding upstream/1.8.1 tag?
> 
> I will try to do what you describe. I am not familiar with these procedures.

No worries.  If you run into difficulties, feel free to reach out and/or
to go ahead with your updated package upload.  We can take care of
getting the repo updated after the fact.

Regards,
tony KG7IEL