Bug#419890: include aoTuV patch

[Adeodato Simó]

* Rogério Brito [Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:00:56 -0300]:

> I have already packaged a private version of libvorbis with the aotuv
> patch (which applies cleanly) and I also fixed some lintian warnings.

> If some mentors are interested in what I did so far, I put the sources
> on my homepage:

> http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/libvorbis/libvorbis_1.1.2.dfsg-2.0+aotuv5.dsc

> Please, note that they are almost in a point to be uploaded to, say,
> experimental, but there are some cosmetic documentation facts that need
> some more attention (any comments are *QUITE* welcome).

I can't believe you're looking for a sponsor for an NMU of these
characteristics, even if targetted at experimental (but the changelog
entry says 'unstable', btw).

You don't, ever, do things like that, particularly not before mailing
the bug report asking what the status of the bug is, whether the
maintainer has an opinion on it, and expressing your wish to see the
patch applied in an experimental version.

We all appreciate enthusiasm and work put onto improving Debian, yours
in this case, but sometimes enthusiasm can, by ignorance or else, go off
the correct path, and this is not desirable. Consider this a friendly
note pointing out that what you're trying to do here is not quite correct.

Said that, and now with my libvorbis maintainer hat on, feel free to
mail the bug report again as hinted above, and we can discuss things.
Other options besides uploading to experimental would be uploading the
patch in a separate source package, or create a separate binary package
with the patch from the libvorbis source package, given that the ABI is
maintained.

Cheers,

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> +  * debian/README.Source: fix typo;
> +  * debian/control: changed the ${Source-Version} substvar to ${binary:Version}

Just for the record, these two were fixed in the Bazaar branch a week ago:

  http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-xiph/libvorbis

> +    It also makes the package binNMU'able.

This is not true, it already was.

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