Re: maxima 'serious' bug fix missed freeze
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 10:59 -0400, Camm Maguire wrote:
> "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> writes:
> > The upload appears to have introduced several other changes which aren't
> > documented in the changelog and don't appear related to fixing the bug;
> > the changelog just says "Backport fixes to 591862 and related items":
[...]
> > - A build system change which results in debian/maxout.gnuplot,
> > debian/tests.lisp.patch, doc/info/extract_categories.sh.debdiff,
> > doc/info/include-maxima.texi, doc/man/ru/maxima.1 and tests/rtest14.ERR
> > disappearing from the source package; it's possible some or all of them
> > were never intended to be shipped, but it's not easy to tell.
[...]
> For some as yet still unclear reason, several bug fixes to the maxima
> package were lost on each upstream upgrade starting from
> 5.20.1. (e.g. 5.21.0, 5.21.1, 5.22.0, 5.22.1).
[...]
> The files listed in your last point are build generated/modified files
> erroneously included in the source diff. All of these 'were not
> intended to be shipped'. This was a fix erroneously reverted.
I can't find any mention of this in the changelog, although they do
mostly look like they shouldn't be in the source.
fwiw, the source package currently in unstable includes
doc/man/ru/maxima.1.
> The replacement of the gv dependency with mime-support and postscript
> viewer was a fix to an explicit bug which had been erroneously
> reverted.
This is presumably #590785; this was only applied to the package _after_
the version currently in testing.
> maxima suggests maxima-emacs was a bug fix erroneously reverted.
>
> quilt was an improvement erroneously reverted.
Both of these I can find changelog entries for, although I haven't
checked the actual packages to verify that the changes were made.
After having argued with myself for a while after this, I've just
approved the upload. In future, however, it would be very much
appreciated if you mention in advance that you were planning on
including such changes, and include more detailed changelog entries.
Regards,
Adam
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