Bug#689726: unblock: gcc-4.6-doc/4.6.3-1

[Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>]

On Oct 24, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-10-24 at 16:11 -0400, root wrote:
> > ,----
> > | >
> > | >> Perhaps the DMUA field adds some security concern. However  
> > currently,
> > | >> neither Samuel nor I am a DM. In later versions, I'll just  
> > drop DMUA
> > | >> field and ask my sponsor, Steffen, to use the new DM permission
> > | >> interface (after I become a DM).
> [...]
> > | DMUA removed now.[2]
> > `----
> >
> > Wait a minute, here: (1) Guo seems to be a DM now
>
> He wasn't at the time I queried it, as his own mail above confirms.

I know, I just thought it might be relevant.

> > (2) the changelog
> > says his *sponsor* added the DMUA field based working with him  
> > before,
> > and (3) the packages have the field now, so is it really worth  
> > removing?
> >
> > (It's quite true that a control field is not a good way to do this,  
> > but
> > that doesn't mean that it's completely unusable or useless!)
>
> Actually, it *is* useless, or will be very soon - specifically in
> exactly a month. See
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/09/msg00008.html
>
> As of November 24th, its presence will serve no purpose.

Oh, I see: the replacement system is already working.  I missed that  
when I tried googling this, thanks!

I guess Steffan somehow missed the memo? (*hint hint*)

> > I propose that Guo put the DMUA back, then upload the revised  
> > versions
> > of gcc-4.6-doc and gcc-4.7-doc *himself* rather than waiting for a
> > sponsor to do it.
> >
> > p.s. Note that, technically, Guo didn't set me as Maintainer: I did;
> > this should have been fairly obvious from the changelogs.  (This was
> > back before I essentially abandoned the project, partly in despair of
> > getting gcc-doc-defaults to match gcc-defaults and partly for lack of
> > feedback from potential sponsors.)
>
> It wasn't at all obvious from the .changes file which was uploaded,  
> i.e.
> http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/gcc-4.6-doc/news/20121003T190008Z.html

True. I guess that's why Jakub Wilk made me squash my changelogs when  
he mentored me for my tack package: so everything would show up in  
the .changes file he uploaded.

p.s. If it wasn't obvious, the message you are replying to was from  
me, Samuel Bronson; I had forgotten that that instance of Emacs was  
running as root...