Bug#852295: RFS: freecell-solver/4.8.0-1 NMU
Hello
>This makes me angry and disappointed. I reported
>https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=841445 many months ago and
>posted "ping replies" and nothing was done to resolve it - either by the
>maintainer, who was missing-in-action and not for the first time - or by a
>different Debian contributor. And now you tell me that the new release of
>Debian will ship an old version of freecell-solver with some documented crashes
>and freezes and other bugs.
for sure you should have opened an NMU request months ago, posting your willingness
to upload and a deadline to the maintainer.
However, the maintainer had already a MIA process, is inactive since 9 months,
and upstream is asking us to update because of bugs/crashes.
Since we can't ignore upstream, I think in this case we should just upload it.
(the changes looks fine, but something needs adjustememnt)
1) the library is public, and maybe the ABI changed but there are no reverse-deps, so I don't
care too much
2) there is an useless "debhelper," dependency in control file
3) kaz_tree.c and +kaz_tree.h are not reflected in debian/copyright
the packaging looks complicate, but we can't fix this in an NMU :)
I'm going to open a MIA process right now
Andrey, do you agree with me? you started the review, I don't want to steal your package
or break rules too much :)
Gianfranco
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