Re: Your "smemstat" stable upload
On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 19:56 +0000, Colin Ian King wrote:
> On 22/01/17 19:10, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I noticed that you uploaded a "smemstat" package to the proposed-updates
> > queue for Debian jessie.
> >
> > The metadata for the bug referenced in the changelog (#852070) indicates
> > that the bug also affects the version of the package in unstable. If
> > that's correct, please fix the bug in unstable first; if it's not,
> > please fix the metadata.
>
> Thanks for looking at this. The fix is in unstable, so how do I fix up
> the metadata? I'm not sure what you mean.
The simplest way, once you've determined which upload of smemstat to
Debian first included the fix, is to send "fixed 852070 $version" to
control@bugs.debian.org.
> > For any future uploads to stable, please open an appropriately-tagged
> > bug against the release.debian.org pseudo-package ("reportbug
> > release.debian.org" is the simplest way of getting the metadata right)
> > to discuss the upload first. In this case, the patch itself looks okay
> > but we'd have requested that the version used be 0.01.10-1+deb8u1.
>
> Ah, OK, so if need to upload again, I guess it will be 0.01.10-2+debu1
> since I've now uploaded 0.01-10-2.
Indeed.
Regards,
Adam
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