On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 17:35:47 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > I guess Jonas won't like commit 6c488a2 ("Depend on debhelper >> 8 to
> > appease Lintian."), if I remember his preferences correctly.
>
> Don't worry - apply those changes if you believe they are relevant.
>
> I might look at it later and decide to revert if I believe (as I
> commonly do) that lintian is mistaken and there is no actual benefit
> from tightening compatibility level and/or package versioning - only the
> potential added hassle for backporters.
>
> ...but as said, don't worry: Don't let the risk of potential future
> differing views of fellow developers stop you :-D
Excellent :)
> > But since this is one of Jonas' package, I'd rather leave the decision
> > and upload to him (although I'm happy to help of course).
> Please do not frame the package as "mine": It is team-maintained!
Right, thanks for pointing this out, and sorry for this
not-really-successful wording attempt.
> I guess what you really mean is that you feel uncomfortable with stuff
> speficic to CDBS - just as I am uncomfortable with stuff specific to
> short-form dh. I am happy to help finalize and release CDBS-based
> packages, and am grateful that you do same for short-form dh packages in
> this team.
Same here :)
So, Peter, if you can forward the patch and finalize d/changelog, the
package will see the light of unstable soon!
Cheers,
gregor
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