[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#645972: Entangle (Was: useful software for medical practice)

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Fri Aug 10 14:58:46 UTC 2012


Hi Matteo,

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 04:25:30PM +0200, Matteo F. Vescovi wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:53:34AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > after doing some finger warming up in the morning and basically
> > duplicating the work inside the pkg-phototools repository[1] (my
> > fault to forget to check WNPP) I noticed that the packaging looks
> > quite ready for upload.
> > 
> > Matteo, any reason to use experimental as target distribution.
> 
> Release Team's advice "During freeze, please upload to experimental if
> the upload is not intended to fix RC bugs" is quite clear to me.

Well, that's for packages which are just in testing and if these needs
an update with minimal changes it is bad to have some higher version "in
between" in unstable.  This is not the case for new packages so the
advise does not apply here.
 
> > I'd suggest the following changes:
> > 
> >   changelog: s/experimental/unstable/
> 
> Already explained my point about that; however, feel free to "force" me
> to change it ;-)

Hoping to be able to convince rather than force. ;-)

> >   control:
> >      s/Priority: extra/Priority: optional/
> 
> Could you possibly point me to a specific Debian Policy Manual paragraph
> for this change? Just to know why I'm doing this and if it's correct.

  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities

I do not see any conflicts to other packages.  Moreover Debian Med policy
document gives another reason:

  http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/docs/policy.html:

   Packages of priority “extra” are excluded from some QA tests.

This is nothing what we want!  We want QA tests!

> >      add myself to Uploaders
> 
> If this would ease the upload, ok.

This is irrelevant for the actual upload because the changelog entry is
relevant for "who has uploaded this package" and I would leave this
untouched to honor your work on this.  I just tend to put myself into
Uploaders to express the fact that I have some interest in the package
(which was finally triggered by the request on the Debian Med list).

Kind regards

      Andreas.

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