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Re: wget for sarge update



On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 06:52:53PM +0200, Noèl Köthe wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 03.10.2004, 21:38 -0700 schrieb Steve Langasek:

> > I'm not going to accept an upload to t-p-u that makes off-point,
> > substantial changes to the build rules.  Pushing this from unstable to
> > testing might be doable, but being free of severity: serious FTBFS bugs
> > is an obvious prerequisite.

> > Moving patches around like you have here also makes it more difficult to
> > use tools like interdiff and debdiff to review the changes.  This is an
> > absolute non-starter for t-p-u; for unstable->testing propagation, it
> > means I'm likely to let the source age in unstable for a bit before
> > pushing it in, since I don't have the time to fully review the changes
> > directly.

> I thought it might help  to use dpatch. If you prefer to get back to
> non-dpatch wget for sarge, I will do it. -6 is the package without
> dpatch which I could reupload as -8 and after it went into sarge I will
> change back to dpatch.

> Do you want it this way?

You are free to use the tools you want to for maintaining your package,
and although I'm not excited about adding dpatch to a package that's
frozen, I can accept it.  If you think this change needs to reach
testing with less than a 10 day waiting period, though, you'll need to
offer a package with a smaller changeset or convince Colin to review the
package.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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