Control: tags -1 moreinfo confirmed Hi Jens, duck, On 01-06-2019 17:47, Jens Reyer wrote: > I'm posting this now because I'm really worried about the lack of > progress with this issue. However as stated before by me in this bug > here, and by the libmspack maintainer in #923885, we both think that > 0.10.1-1 is for various reasons better, and better tested and thus risk > free. I acknowledge your view. I don't think the freeze time (and process) is great for anybody. > About this alternative version here: > > +libmspack (0.10.1+really0.8-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium > + > + * Non-maintainer upload. > + * Revert back to libmspack/0.8-1. > + * Add build-dependency on quilt. > + * Add patch from upstream to fix regression when extracting cabinets > + using -F option (Closes: #912687). > + > + -- Jens Reyer <jre.winesim@gmail.com> Sat, 01 Jun 2019 14:32:06 +0200 > + > > > 1.) Versioning and targeted suite > > This proposal reverts the upstream version back from 0.10 (unstable) to > 0.8 (testing), therefore the "new" upstream version 0.10.1+really0.8. > For building I just symlinked the 0.8 orig.tar. > > It's based directly on 0.8-1, dropping all debian/ changes (including > the changelog) since then. > > So this version should be fine to go via unstable (not sure about the > reverted d/changelog)). We prefer this route. > Alternatively we could go via testing-proposed.> > > 2.) Code > > I took only the "fix" part from the upstream commit fixing this, but not > the documentation or updated testsuite (which includes changed binaries). > > I verified that the issue affecting winetricks is solved. > > I assume a fix for #914794 (libmspack fails tests on big endian > architectures (s390x, mips)), reported against 0.9.1-1 is not necessary. > However if that was caused by a change in the toolchain instead of > changes in the package, I'll also add that fix here. > > > > > I'm looking forward to get some feedback from the release team, > preferably by: > > unblock libmspack/0.10.1-1 > > Otherwise please tell us if we should go with this version (targeting > unstable or testing-proposed?), or something else (e.g. filing bugs for > every issue fixed in 0.10.1-1) > > Before (if at all) doing any upload I'll of course coordinate it with > the libmspack maintainer. Please align. I'll unblock the targeted fix you propose above. Seeing the progress on the current package, I don't think you should expect the current version to be unblocked before buster. You can remove the moreinfo tag when the +really package is ready to be unblocked. Paul
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