RFU jed 1:0.99.19~pre143-1

[Jörg Sommer]

Hallo Rafael,

Rafael Laboissiere schrieb am Sun 22. Jun, 16:39 (+0200):
> * Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2008-06-17 01:10]:
> 
> > Lintian warns about a spelling mistake that is a false positive and about
> > the outdated Standards-Version.
> 
> Okay, the package built fine for me with the two Lintian warnings yu mention
> above.  I do not understand the reported spelling mistake.

AFAIK, the failure is X Window with the trailing S. But we can't fix it,
because it's a mistake by design.

> > When we raise the version we need a documentation for the patch target. I
> > had the hope that something was already in the dpatch package, but it's not
> > there.
> 
> What do you mean by "documentation for the patch target"?  Why is that
> preventing the bumping of Standards-Version?

The new policy version requests (from
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.txt.gz):

      * If dpkg-source -x doesn't produce source ready for editing and
        building with dpkg-buildpackage, packages should include a
        debian/README.source file explaining how to generate the patched
        source, add a new modification, and remove an existing
        modification.  This file may also be used to document packaging a
        new upstream release and any other complexity of the Debian build
        process.                                                  [4.14]

We can write our own README.source file, but expect that the dpatch
package will provide such a file and it's allowed to refer to it. But
until we explain the patch system, we can't bump the Standard-Version.

Bye, Jörg.
-- 
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