Bug#989801: RFS: libcddb/1.3.2-7 [ITA] -- library to access CDDB data - runtime files

[Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>]

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Hi Nick,

On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 10:59:25PM +0800, Nick Gasson wrote:

> Changes since the last upload:
> 
>  libcddb (1.3.2-7) unstable; urgency=medium
>  .
>    * debian/control:
>      - New maintainer. (Closes: #980305)
>      - Add Vcs fields.
>      - Update debhelper compatibility level to 13.
>      - Remove Build-Depends: dh-autoreconf.
>      - Update standards version to 4.5.1, no changes needed.
>    * debian/patches:
>      - Change the default server from freedb.org to gnudb.gnudb.org as the
>        former is no longer available. (Closes: #952689)
>      - Disable use of SIGALRM for DNS lookup as this is not thread-safe.
>        Patch adapted from upstream VLC. (Closes: #928176)
>      - Change encoding of THANKS to UTF-8 to fix lintian warning.
>    * debian/compat:
>      - Removed, using Build-Depends: debhelper-compat instead.
>    * debian/not-installed:
>      - Ignore .la files for dh_missing.
>      - Ignore cddb_query utility not currently packaged.
>    * debian/salsa-ci.yml:
>      - Enable CI.
>    * debian/libcddb2-dev.examples:
>      - Removed useless makefiles from /usr/share/doc as they are generated by
>        automake and so only work within the libcddb build tree. They also
>        contain the full path to the build directory which makes the package
>        unreproducible. The example program is trivial to compile anyway.
>    * debian/libcddb2-dev.README.Debian:
>      - Add a note on how to compile the example program.
>    * debian/tests:
>      - Add a simple autopkgtest that uses the cddb_query example program to
>        query the default CDDB server.
>    * debian/copyright:
>      - Convert to machine readable format.
> 

as you know, we are currently in the freeze; that means such a big changeset is
not appropiate at this time to be uploaded to unstable.

Said, that, it looks like that #952689 _might_ be a good reason to cherry-pick
the fix for that bug and do an targetet upload; if I understood correctly,
without this patch the package is quite useless in its default configuration…
Possibly the bugs severity should be raised because of that…

If you agree, would you mind to prepare a minimal-changes packages to target
this bug and file an unblock request with the release team?

-- 
Cheers,
tobi