Bug#969918: RFS: mtd-utils/1:2.1.2-0.1 [NMU] -- Memory Technology Device Utilities
On Tue, Sep 08, 2020 at 10:32:08PM +0200, Bastian Germann wrote:
> Package: sponsorship-requests
> Severity: normal
>
> Changes since the last upload:
>
> mtd-utils (1:2.1.2-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
> .
> [ Bastian Germann ]
> * Non-maintainer upload.
> * Import new upstream version (Closes: #965155, #716414)
> * Use arch:linux-any (Closes: #745187)
> * Add d/watch with pubkey
> * d/copyright: Convert to DEP-5
> * d/copyright: Add new copyrights for 2.1.2
> * Revert "lib*-dev: Don't include private kernel header"
> * lib*-dev: Mark Multi-Arch: same (Closes: #965213)
> .
> [ Balint Reczey ]
> * Ignore test results on architectures where tests are not known to pass
> .
> [ Debian Janitor ]
> * Trim trailing whitespace.
> * Bump debhelper from deprecated 9 to 12.
> * Set debhelper-compat version in Build-Depends.
> * Drop unnecessary dependency on dh-autoreconf.
> * Drop unnecessary dh arguments: --parallel
> * Update standards version to 4.5.0, no changes needed.
Those are quite a few changes for an NMU, I fear they are bit too much [1].
The maintainer has been recently active (albeith on other packages)…
Did you talk to the maintainer about the changes? Maybe you should join
efforts with Riku?
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#when-and-how-to-do-an-nmu
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Cheers,
tobi
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