Re: xorgproto_2018.4-1_amd64.changes REJECTED

[Timo Aaltonen <tjaalton@debian.org>]

On 09.03.2018 08:00, Chris Lamb wrote:
> 
> Version: 2018.4-1
> Timestamp: 2018-03-06 19:36:05.059079+00:00
> 
> Takes over more then ten packages but gives not the slightest hint that this is correct

Hint like what, and for whom, exactly? Upstream merged all the separate
protocol packages in one:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2018-February/059133.html

> Uses a weird mix of package styles:
> W: xorgproto source: patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff attic/bigreqsproto/docbook.am
> W: xorgproto source: patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff attic/bigreqsproto/specs/Makefile.am
> W: xorgproto source: patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff attic/fontsproto/docbook.am
> W: xorgproto source: patch-system-but-direct-changes-in-diff attic/fontsproto/specs/Makefile.am

That's because packaging is based on upstream git plus source format 1.0
(like ~all xorg-team packages are), and the tarball doesn't ship these.
But whatever, I've removed them from the packaging branch.


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