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Bug#689854: pmount needs some loving care



Hi Barak,

Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
> > I request an adopter for the pmount package.
> 
> I can adopt it, although I'd much prefer to team/co-maintain.

As mentioned before, I could help with package maintenance, but not
with the upstream code.

> I've done a bit of work, which I just took the liberty of pushing to
> branch barak-tweaks in
>  git://anonscm.debian.org/git/pmount/pmount-debian.git
>
> This supports btrfs and has some other misc fixes like updated packaging
> scripts and rm freeze-my-shell bash completion file.

Thanks!

Vincent wrote:
> > I'm the current upstream maintainer too, so the
> > adopter will have to take care of upstream too.

So wouldn't it be better to make a new upstream release instead of
adding patches to debian/patches/?

> Barring objections, I'll dput it as better-than-nothing.

For my taste, the changelog item "Update debian packaging scripts"
should be more verbose. (But then again some people think, my
changelog entries are slightly too verbose. ;-)

		Regards, Axel
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