Bug#691814: Bug #691814: Re: unblock: gcc-4.4-doc-non-dfsg/4.4.7-1

[GUO Yixuan <culu.gyx@gmail.com>]

On 11/13/2012 05:36 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-10-30 at 13:57 +0800, Guo Yixuan wrote:
>> This upload updates document for gcc 4.4 branch, removes
>> gcc-doc-base (provided by gcc-4.7-doc) and gcj-4.4-doc (gcj-4.4
>> already removed from wheezy). The packaging style was updated to
>> match gcc-4.6-doc/gcc-4.7-doc.
> 
> Given that we're in a freeze (and have been for some time now) packaging
> style changes aren't really appropriate. In particular, debhelper compat
> bumps (even from 5 to 7) and source format / patch system changes aren't
> things I'd expect to see in a package with an unblock requested.
> 
> (gcc-4.{6,7}-doc didn't have previous versions in testing so the use of
> 3.0 (quilt) etc wasn't a change.)

OK, I'll try to go back to the old 1.0 formant with dh level 5 and
dpatch and upload again.

> 
>> I attached result of
>>
>> $ git diff debian/4.4.4.nf1-1 debian/4.4.7-1 -M
>>
>> It's large because this package hasn't seen an update for long...
> 
> As a result the mail did not make it to the debian-release list.

Well, apart from changes in debian/, changes in upstream part compressed
to over 60k... certainly more than the 40k limit. (I suppose the
canonical place for unblock request is the bts, so it doesn't matter too
much to be absent from debian-release, does it?)

Regards,

GUO Yixuan