Hi!
(Debian KDE Extras Team mail address corrected)
El Jueves, 12 de julio de 2012, Cyril Brulebois
escribi?:> Hello,
>
> and thanks for checking with us.
>
> Ra?l S?nchez Siles <rasasi78 at gmail.com> (06/07/2012):
> > Since I don''t have upload rights I requested regular
uploaders
> > first, then kde- extras team for sponsoring. The situation was such
> > that I failed to manage time left to freeze properly and upload
didn''t
> > happen. Moreover upstream released the 4.2.0 version, which
I''m
> > proposing now and which differs slightly with my sponsoring requests.
> > I''m asking now considering kvirc package 4:4.2.0-1 into
wheezy, Taking
> > into account [2], I''d like to support my petition on the
following
> >
> > points:
> > ? Bugs 658058 and 669189 matches multiarch and hardening flags
release
> > goals, respectively.
>
> We could consider that.
>
> > ? All packages generated are priority optional or extra, and
> >
> > therefore unlikely to harm any other parts of the system. There is no
> > other debian package, excluding those generated by kvirc source
> > package, that depends on it.
>
> Noted, but that alone won''t make us give you carte blanche.
>
> > ? New upstream release include a very high density of translation
> > updates. For instance, full debdiff [3] shows 646 files changed, 99946
> > insertions(+), 72202 deletions(-) whereas debdiff [4], excluding po
> > dir shows 305 files changed, 5472 insertions(+), 6656 deletions(-)
>
> Even excluding translation updates (which is at least for now very OK
> according to our freeze policy), that''s still huge.
>
> > ? New upstream release starts 4.2.x major versions, Historically
> > there have been 1 or 2 upstream minor revisions which we (debian) may
> > profit from, specially as regards with security or serious issues. If
> > 4.2.0 is not deployed in Wheezy our base version will be
> > 4.1.3+20111124.svn5988-1, based on a development snapshot. From the
> > maintainers point of view, basing on a stable release is more than
> > convenient.
>
> I can understand that, but that''s unfortunate it got released so
late as
> far as the wheezy freeze is concerned.
>
> > ? One extra cosmetic-point is that this upload means zero bug
> > package. Something that I guess every package maintainer would like
> > to see for his packaged stuff :)
>
> Sorry, but totally irrelevant. :p
>
>
> To summarize, not sure what to advise for this package. Surely the
> proposed changes are much larger than what I''d like at this point
of the
> release cycle.
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
Thanks for your answer. My apologise for the delay, vacancy were on its way.
Given your answer and provided there are no other opinions here I decided to
prepare a package[0] backporting just the points considered. This is the
changelog:
kvirc (4:4.1.3+20111124.svn5988-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Updated debhelper build-depends to better cope with multiarch.
* Fix "must not be "Multi-Arch: same"" kvirc is
Multi-Arch: foreign
(Closes: #658058)
* Actually provide valid -dbg package. Added 30_upstream_build-g
* Fix "Hardening flags missing". Applying suggested changes.
(Closes: #669189) Thanks to Simon Ruderich.
[0]
http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_4.1.3+20111124.svn5988-2.dsc
Please, let me know if this approach is acceptable to you and if I can do
anything else to help about this issue.
Regards,
--
Ra?l S?nchez Siles
----->Proud Debian user<-----
Linux registered user #416098
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