Re: Unofficial GNU/Hurd release in connection to Debian/Wheezy?
Svante Signell, le Fri 05 Oct 2012 14:49:07 +0200, a écrit :
> On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 14:08 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Svante Signell, le Fri 05 Oct 2012 13:22:34 +0200, a écrit :
> > > Follow-up questions:
> > > 1) What to do about the Debian bug #599789
> > > - upload an updated (rediffed) hurd.patch?
> >
> > That would be the next step, but it's not useful before wheezy is out:
> > maintainers aren't supposed to apply changes which are not meant for
> > wheezy.
>
> I know, but what is the harm of doing that?
Upon receiving such mail the maintainer will think "ok, fine", but will
have nothing to do. So it steals time from him without actual use. I.e.
it becomes noise.
> Otherwise I'm afraid it will be drowned by other things and forgotten.
Forgoten, no, since the bug are still there.
> > > 2) Looks like it is not possible to apt-get source from debian-ports
> > > even if that version is later than the one in the main archive?
> > > The binary .deb is available.
> ..
> > It seems the Sources file there is empty. I don't know whether it is
> > intentional or not. It could be. Check with its admins.
>
> Contact info?
See the webpage.
Samuel
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