scheduling 5.10.1-12

Niko Tyni ntyni at debian.org
Wed Apr 7 11:00:56 UTC 2010


On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:10:10AM +0100, Chris Butler wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 12:42:35AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:
> > Please eyeball (and preferably test) the 5.10.1-12 changes in the
> > git repository. I intend to upload them to sid on Thursday or so.
> 
> I had a look through the changes, and they all seem sensible to me. After I
> eventually figured out TopGit, I managed to build and install the package on
> my sid/amd64 system with no issues.

Thanks! (and to you too, Eugene :)

> I note that there are a few lintian warnings, a lot of which are to do with
> errors in man pages. Most of them look like easy fixes - I may have a go at
> these later. None of the issues look like blockers for release though.

Yes. Please feed the spelling fixes upstream. I've been following Brendan's
policy about avoiding divergences that haven't been accepted upstream first.
I'm fine with backporting them to our version after that, of course.

Note that Porting/Maintainers.pl has the canonical information on where
the patches should be sent.
 
> I noticed that the Standards-Version is a few revisions behind. Based on
> upgrading-checklist.txt, it looks to me like this can go up to 3.8.4 without
> any other changes required.

Yeah, agreed. Bumped to 3.8.4 in the repo now.

Thanks again,
-- 
Niko



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