[Pkg-ace-devel] 6.2.7

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

 > Starting with Johnny's jwi-6.2.7-test branch, I have been working on
> 6.2.7 for the last month

Great!

> --8<---
> ace (6.2.7-1) experimental; urgency=low
>
>    [ Johnny Willemsen ]
>    * New upstream release
>
>    [ Pau Garcia i Quiles ]
>    * Refresh patch 34-bts386713 (3 years later!)
>    * Enable hardening
>    * Add Large File Support
>    * Add lintian overrides for safe-to-be-ignored issues
>    * Add patch 36-fix-typos (submitted upstream)

Is this really something to do in packaging, fix typos? Why not just 
focus on packaging and just report this kind of things upstream and just 
get it fixed through a next micro release? Now you have to create a 
patch, use it, remove it when 6.2.8 gets out. To my opinion packaging 
should really focus on the packaging, and use the upstream releases to 
get any fixes in. This normally shouldn't be a major problem, we release 
a new micro around each 6 to 8 weeks.

Great to see this happening, hopefully this way future micro releases 
can be added to debian easily.

Johnny

>    * Add patch 37-remove-google-tracking
>    * Update standards to 3.9.5.0
>
>   -- Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles at elpauer.org
> <mailto:pgquiles at elpauer.org>>  Sun, 29 Jun 2014 12:40:36 +0200
> --8<---
>
> I think it is mostly ready for upload and it would be great if you could
> give it a try.
>
> Lintian still shows 4 warnings, which are not exactly critical:
>
> W: libace-dev: symlink-is-self-recursive usr/lib/ace/lib ..
> W: tao-utils: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/tao_ft_naming
> W: tao-utils: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/tao_nsgroup
> W: tao-utils: binary-without-manpage usr/bin/tao_service
>
> The missing manpages are easy to fix but as I am not familiar with the
> SGML used in debian/*.sgml, I cannot work on it until this weekend.
>
> The other one, the symlink from /usr/lib/ace/lib to /usr/lib/ace is a
> bit more difficult. I am not sure why it is being created. Any tips?
>
> --
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>
>
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