Bug#876519: sponsorship-requests: RFS: tack/1.08-0.1 [RC, NMU]
On 2017-09-23 10:54 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: important
>
> I am looking for a sponsor for an NMU of the "tack" package,
> https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/tack.
>
> This is a new upstream version fixing an FTBFS bug with current
> ncurses[1] and a segfault problem[2]. In addition to that, I have fixed
> the debian/watch file which was no longer working[3].
>
> I have tried to keep the changes under debian/ minimal, but the upstream
> changes are quite large (34 files changed, 10268 insertions, 4831
> deletions). Still, considering that this is a leaf package with low
> popcon and the maintainer has not replied to any of the bugs, packaging
> a new upstream release seemed appropriate to me.
>
> A detailed log of what I broke is on the git repository at [4] (the
> Debian changelog has not been finalized there yet, will push if/when the
> package gets accepted into Debian).
>
> 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=862472
> 2. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=716377
> 3. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=873288
> 4. https://anonscm.debian.org/git/users/joachim-guest/tack.git/log/?h=nmu
I guess it would have helped if I had mentioned that I have actually
uploaded the package to mentors.debian.net[1,2]. Except for the now
finalized debian/changelog, it matches what is in the above git
repository.
Cheers,
Sven
1. https://mentors.debian.net/package/tack
2. https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/t/tack/tack_1.08-0.1.dsc
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