On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 08:55:14PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 03:03:37PM +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> > that's unfortunately a common situation in too many parts of debian :(
>
> I would agree but strictly speaking non-free isn't a part of Debian. ;-)
*g*
> > But it's something I can't afford to do, so I approach smaller tasks.
>
> Before you try you can never know whether writing a mail to upstream
> takes longer / is less successful than writing to nonfree@r.d.o. :-P
oh, from what you wrote I thought you already tried that!
> > Anyway, given that you confirmed my fears about nonfree@r.d.o, I'm
> > building it here and I'm going to do a binary-only upload of it once
> > done.
> > This package is blocking the procps transition to complete, that is.
> > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/auto-procps.html :)
>
> Ahh, OK, that's a fair reason. Thanks for your effort.
my experiment with crafting a binary-only upload half worked, as it did
get installed correctly, but spammed debian-med-packaging@ with 3
unwanted emails. well, it still worked :)
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