Re: [Pkg-octave-devel] Restoring branches on octave-symbolic :-(

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <jordigh@gmail.com>]

On 6 January 2011 16:17, Thomas Weber <tweber@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 04:26:02PM -0600, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:

>> I asked around in IRC and they said it was still possible to get the
>> package back into squeeze if I had an unstable upload.
>
> Yes, with a small change, not a complete change of packaging style. RM
> review the actuall changes -- several hundred lines of diff is not what
> they can review.

The release managers don't care what's in git... the actual diff from
what is in git and the source package is small. It's just the 4 svn
revisions plus the changes in debian/

I guess you managed to make it smaller.

Thanks,
- Jordi G. H.