commons-daemon: some changes are missing from the svn repo

[Niels Thykier]

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Hi

Forwarding to debian-java at l.d.o, which is our discussion list.

On 2010-07-13 12:45, Sergio Gelato wrote:
> I'm looking at svn://svn.debian.org/pkg-java/trunk/commons-daemon (while
> working on a private fix for bug #578661) and noticed a few problems
> specifically with r10449:
> 
> 1) The changes made in r8513 were reverted for no obvious reason. 
> In particular, the debian/watch file is still/again specifying an
> obsolete location for the upstream packages.
> 
> 2) Some of the changes described in debian/changelog, and present in the
> actual package .diff.gz, haven't been checked into svn. This is true at
> least of the changes to src/native/unix/support/apsupport.m4; I'm guessing
> that all changes to files outside the debian/ subtree are missing.
> 

I would suspect 1) was a mistake but I haven't checked.

About 2) though, have you checked that they have not been converted into
a standard-alone patch in debian/patches? If not this could be a real issue.

Regardless, you are more than welcome to fix this/these issue(s). If you
are not already a member of the Java Team, you can apply for membership[1].

> While I'm at it: how would the maintainers feel about converting this package
> to use quilt?
> 

Personally I prefer 3.0 (quilt) to 1.0 and I know others of the team are
also either okay or happy with it. I think you can convert it to 3.0
(quilt) if you want.
  I am not sure about Marcus Better, but as I recall both Arnaud Vandyck
and Michael Koch are both not active. Considering that Marcus has not
worked on this since 2007 (according to the changelog), I think this
package is pretty much up for the taking.

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~Niels

[1] See http://pkg-java.alioth.debian.org/developers.html

Re: 3. "Send an email message to the pkg-java-maintainers list and ask
to be added to the project"

Send it to debian-java at l.d.o instead, the page is outdated.

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