Bug#659522: RFS: prelink/0.0.20111012-1 [ITA] - ELF prelinking

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 12:23:20AM +0100, Daniel Martí a écrit :
> A new package is available at mentors as shown below:
> 
> http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/prelink/prelink_0.0.20111012-1.dsc
 
> Since the lintian description tells me to contact upstream before patching
> with quilt (which would give extra work), I've sent a mail to Jakub about the
> subject. I'll wait a week or two for his answer. For the time being, the newer
> upload seems to be fine apart from those two warnings.
> 
> I'd be very glad if someone sponsored this package for me.

Dear Daniel and everybody,

I am interested in prelink because of #643967 and #505906 (which pollutes
my mailbox with a daily notification from a system I co-administrate).

As a first step when inspecting the package, I compared the 'original'
source archive that you uploaded, with the one that looks like
being the upstream one.

http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/prelink/prelink_0.0.20111012.orig.tar.gz
http://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink/prelink-20111012.tar.bz2

Can you explain why they differ ?  Is it the Lintian description that
confused you to repack the archive instead of patching it ?

Have a nice week-end,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan