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Bug#798423: RFS: alien/8.95 [QA] -- convert and install rpm and other packages




Hi, you can just dput again, it will override the previous upload!

cheers

G.


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Il ven 11 set 2015 01:05 CEST, Fabiano Antunes ha scritto:

>Hi Gianfranco,
>> Somehow, dch --qa automatically pushes the minor version up.  I have
>> realized it just now,
>>
>> I guess this is because the package is native
>Yes, definitely, according to the documentation [1], that's correct!
>>
>> Having two separate patches to perform two (very) distinct fixes sounded
>> a good idea to me.
>> I'm not really sure about how to handle native packages, so I thought
>> I'd better not touch it,
>> so that I wouldn't introduce any new bugs.  Anyways, note taken! Thank
>> you! ;-)
>> the problem is that you can leave the tarball as it was before, and add quilt patches,
>> but I'm not sure this is the right thing to do...
>>
>> anyway please run a debdiff between the two dsc files and add them as quilt patches, lets
>> see how it goes :)
>>
>> (it might be the best way to deal with future bugs)
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> G.
>>
>> (not a problem if you mispell my name, no need to be sorry! :) )
>>
>
>Instead of using quilt, I completely remade the QA work, patched the 
>source directly and fixed a misspelling I made previously.  Is that OK?  
>I haven't uploaded that yet because I have a doubt regarding the 
>procedure, which is:  can I simply 'dput' it again to mentors or is 
>there any procedure I should follow to remove the two previous 'dput' I 
>made?
>
>[1] 
>https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What_is_the_difference_between_a_native_Debian_package_and_a_non-native_package.3F
>
>P.S.: Got the name right this time! Yaaaay! :)
>
>Best regards,
>   Fabiano.
>


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