[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#831833: Bug#831833: Tagged as fixed-upstream - do you intend to upload?

[Andreas Tille]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 06:39:00PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Then, I tried to look for other commits to apply in order to make the patched
> package buildable, and I realised that first, there has been only 16 commits in
> total since the last upstream release, and second, some of these commits do fix
> other bugs, less severe, but real bugs.  None of them introduce novel
> unreleased features.
> 
> So I am tempted to propose to distribute the current contents of Upstream's
> master branch in Squeeze.  Technically, I can:

Sounds sensible.
 
>  - Just drop a big monolithic patch in debian/patches, or
>  - drop the patches produced by `git format-patch v2.26.0, or
>  - make a new tarball, version 2.26.0-19-g6bf23c4 (`git describe --tags`).
> 
> What do other people think about this ?

I'd vote for the option that causes the least work for you.
All options lead to the same result and there is no "right
or wrong" option here.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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