Bug#856652: RFS: xpdf/3.0.4.real-4
On Fri, 2017-03-03 at 06:24 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> control: tag -1 +moreinfo
> control: owner -1 !
>
> Dear Svante,
>
> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 11:29:44AM +0100, Svante Signell wrote:
> > I am looking for a sponsor for my ITA package "xpdf"
>
> I'd like to sponsor this.
>
> > xpdf (3.04.real-4) experimental; urgency=medium
> >
> > * New maintainer (Closes: #848631)
> > * Build using the correct upstream tarball xpdf-3.04.tar.gz.
>
> For an adoption, we generally want to see further improvements to the
> package so that we can be confident you have a genuine interest in
> continuing to maintain it. If your adoption is merely changing the
> Maintainer: field, we can't be confident that you are unlikely to
> abandon the package. It is better for the package to be orphaned, so
> anyone can make a QA upload, than have an inactive maintainer.
>
> Could you take a look through the packaging and see what else could be
> improved, please? For example, there are some Lintian tags emitted.
I made this upload, renaming 3.04-4 to 3.04.real, mainly to obtain an updated
upstream tarball, which is not the case for the current version in testing. The
reason is to enable using debdiff xpdf_*.dsc for the really fixed package,
3.04.real-5. If needed I can upload that modified package instead. That one is
among other things closing 11 important and normal bugs. (Probably even more
bugs, I have not yet looked into the minor ans wishlist bugs.
Thanks!
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