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Re: Permission request for fake-NMU upload of crossvc



On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 08:29:13PM +0100, Andreas Fester wrote:
> I would like to ask for permission to do a "fake NMU" upload
> of crossvc to testing-proposed-updates. The reason is that I
> once uploaded version 1.5.0-1 which uses debconf to display
> an upgrade hint, but since this caused a lot of trouble I then
> uploaded 1.5.0-2 which replaced the debconf message with an application
> supplied upgrade mechanism. However, meanwhile etch was frozen so that
> the new package never made it into testing (I do feel guilty for that ;)
> I meanwhile learned that I should simply have asked for letting it in...)

> Anyway, there is already a new upstream version in unstable, so that
> 1.5.0-2 effectively does not exist anymore in the archives. My sponsor
> told me (see below) that the proper way would be to re-upload 1.5.0-2
> with an NMU version number, and that I need to ask for permission on
> debian-release which I herewith would like to do :)

I would suggest numbering it 1.5.0-1+etch1 instead of 1.5.0-1.1, for
clarity.

> diff -u crossvc-1.5.0/debian/compat crossvc-1.5.0/debian/compat
> --- crossvc-1.5.0/debian/compat
> +++ crossvc-1.5.0/debian/compat
> @@ -1 +1 @@
> -4
> +5

Please don't change debhelper levels during a freeze.

Otherwise, yes, this looks like an important change to have for the package
in etch.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/



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