Re: change bug# for ITP bug of WNPP package

[Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sourceforge.net>]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:19:29PM +0200, Gerber van der Graaf wrote:
> About one week ago my mentor uploaded my package libgpiv. As I don't
> find it yet on the debian repository, I have been looking if the ITP bug
> has been closed. This seems not to be the case, yet. 
Do you know http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html, where I see that it
is waiting?

> The ITP bug reports version 0.3.2, but the upstream version (that has
> been packaged by me) has been increased to version 0.3.3. (I am the
> upstream developer as well. I have increased the version in upstream in
> order to implement all the changes in source that were needed, so
> the .diff only includes debian/ and .orig.tar.gz is equal to upstream
> tar.gz).  
Changes which are not Debian specific, if I understand correctly?

> My question is if this is this an error that will have to be repaired in
> order to get the debian package uploaded by ftp-master in the repository
> and close this bug? If so, can I change the bug report to version 0.3.3
> or will I have to send a new bugreport, resulting into a new bug number
> and, therefore, have to change debian/changelog and re-upload the
> debianized package?
Don't worry about the version in the ITP bug, probably nobody will
ever look at it ever :)

When you next upload the package, you'll have to have a different
.diff.gz, with less stuff in it, because that stuff has already been
patched (AIUI).

Justin