Bug#685787: Praat has serious bug #713597

[Andreas Tille]

Hi James,

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:06:37PM -0400, James McCoy wrote:
> Thanks Rafael for the feedback and Andreas for continued patience.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:10:00PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:44:57PM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> > > It would be preferable that you had created a side branch in the Git
> > > repository for your changes, such that the merge would be trivial to
> > > do.
> 
> This really wouldn't have made much of a difference.  It's trivial to
> add Andrea's repo as a remote and then the functionality is the same as
> if the branch were in devscripts' repo.  At the time that Andreas
> started work on this, devscripts wasn't in collab-maint so it made sense
> to just push his changes to a user repo on Alioth so people could access
> and review the changes.

OK.

> > > It will also be necessary to prepare a qpatched versions for uscan.1
> > > and debian/control.
> > 
> > I'd happily provide this if I could be sure that this effort is not
> > wasted in a way that uscan in devscripts simply moves on and I need
> > to redo the patch later again.  Some signal of devscripts maintainer
> > regarding this would be helpful.
> 
> As stated before, we were originally waiting for the (longish) Wheezy
> freeze to finish and release.  Since that has happened, there has been a
> lack of time available from existing maintainers.
> 
> Your work is not wasted, though, since we can integrate your changes
> regardless of whether they've been rebased on a recent version of uscan.
> It's "just" a matter of time to review and merge.
> 
> I will work on this within the next month.

Cool.  Just let me know if I could be of any help.

Kind regards and thanks for maintaining devscripts

      Andreas.

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