Re: Pre-approval request for catdoc

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2012-11-17 at 10:19 +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> #692073 therefore makes catdoc all but impossible to NMU - it makes it
> all but impossible for me to rebuild 0.94.3. I'm considering raising
> the severity (probably serious as the catdoc build system in the
> current version in Debian is not particularly sane).
> 
> The best fix would be a new .orig - there are no patches in the current
> debian package and the patch for #692076 could be integrated upstream
> as the only change from 0.94.3.orig.tar.gz and 0.94.4.orig.tar.gz. That
> and the removal of the .pc directory would be the only upstream change
> between 0.94.3 and 0.94.4. After Wheezy, we'll switch the catdoc build
> to probably cmake and do a backport including some other interim
> fixes.

That sounds sane enough. Please go ahead and get back to us (preferably
with an unblock bug :-) once the package has been in unstable for a
couple of days.

Regards,

Adam