Upstreaming patches (Re: Ask for review)

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Sat, 22 Apr 2017, Lukas Schwaighofer wrote:
> I've decided not to report changes made to dsniff as the latest (last?)
> upstream version is a "beta" version from 2002.  Do we document the fact
> that we consider upstream dead somewhere (or is the fact that our patch
> queue has a length of 35 documentation enough…)?

Adding a word about this in README.Debian (or even in the package
description in debian/control) is a possibility.

> For libnids I've opened two additional issues in the sourcefourge BTS.
> I've added links in the DEP-3 headers of our patches.

Great!

> Btw: is there a reason http://dep.debian.net is not available via https?
> Is there a way to find out who (or which pseudo-package) is responsible
> for that service?

http://dep.debian.net is actually http://dep.alioth.debian.org
and I don't think that alioth offers https access for the project
websites it hosts.

https://alioth.debian.org/projects/dep/

Cheers,
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