Re: Please binNMU phonon-backend-vlc against the new libvlccore7

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

On 2013-10-30 12:08, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 11:38:29 +0000, "Adam D. Barratt"
>
> <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk> wrote:
[...]
> >     * New major upstream release. (Closes: #436339, #632965, 
> > #642187,
>
> >       #698023, #593735, #724734, #665732, #700752, #704941, #708953,
>
> >       #712935, #398167, #646200, #679654, #654955, LP: #982953, 
> > #301193,
>
> >       #986785, #1038303, #1109026, #530797, #667584, #938621, 
> > #671031,
>
> >       #1080847, #1157384, #1173943)

> > Unless every single one of those bugs is requesting an upload of the
> > new version,
>
> They do; they are all (fixed-)upstream bugs. And whomever made the 
> upload
> even *missed* a few bug numbers there.

As a random selection, #593735 is entitled "vlc: don't exclusively 
depend on ttf-freefont". That is a) a packaging change and b) not a 
request for a new upstream version.

Even if that bug were fixed upstream, that is /not/ the same as a 
request for a new upstream version to be uploaded. In this case, the 
changelog would have been better as something along the lines of:

  * New major upstream release:
    - don't exclusively depend on ttf-freefont (Closes: #593735)
    - change 2 (Closes: #NNNNNN)

Regards,

Adam