Re: Advance freeze exception request for libcgi-application-extra-plugin-bundle-perl

[Nicholas Bamber <nicholas@periapt.co.uk>]

Mehdi,

   Thanks.

> The mentioned changes look ok. But, I noticed that there were several
> files deleted from the source tarball. I realize that 0.1 contained some
> cruft and 0.1+nmu1 fixed that (which is a good thing). If you have
> several orig tarballs, you should use the source format 3.0 for this
> package (not during the freeze of cours :p or in experimental if you
> want) and I don't understand yet why it's a native package.

The package is a bundle of related modules some of which would be too 
small to get into Debian otherwise.   

> Besides, I'm curious why the maintainer sponsored an NMU of his own package?

I prepared the release and as I was not an uploader it came up as an NMU.

Version 0.2
Mehdi Dogguy wrote:
> On 10/14/2010 12:01 AM, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
>   
> > Mehdi,
> >
> > I have prepared an file and hopefully Jaldhar will upload it into 
> > unstable and we can proceed from there. For your benefit I include 
> > the diff. Most of it is of course the Creative Commons license.
> >
> >     
>
> The mentioned changes look ok. But, I noticed that there were several
> files deleted from the source tarball. I realize that 0.1 contained some
> cruft and 0.1+nmu1 fixed that (which is a good thing). If you have
> several orig tarballs, you should use the source format 3.0 for this
> package (not during the freeze of cours :p or in experimental if you
> want) and I don't understand yet why it's a native package.
>
> Besides, I'm curious why the maintainer sponsored an NMU of his own package?
>
> … unblocked.
>
> Regards,
>
>