On Fri, 3 Jul 2015 14:55:21 +0200 Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org> wrote: > * Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org>, 2015-07-03, 09:27: > > # remove remnant of old installation under $OLDHTMLDOCDIR > > # remove after squeeze + 2 > > "After squeeze + 2" is now, so maybe better drop these snippets completely. > > >+autoconf-archive (20150224-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium > >+ > >+ * Non-maintainer upload. > >+ * Reapply the unacknowledged 20140228-1.1 NMU (Closes: #790851, #759528) > >+ > >+ -- Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> Fri, 03 Jul 2015 09:04:48 +0100 > >+ > >+autoconf-archive (20140228-1.1) unstable; urgency=medium > >+ > >+ * Non-maintainer upload. > >+ * Fix call to dpkg-maintscript-helper in maintainer scripts (Closes: > >+ #759528): > >+ - Swap the pathname and the target to pass them in the correct order. > >+ - Use absolute pathnames. > >+ > >+ -- Aurelien Jarno <aure...@debian.org> Sun, 31 Aug 2014 06:41:57 +0200 > > You shouldn't include the entry for 20140228-1.1. > > It could trick BTS into thinking that 20140228-1.1 is a descendant of > 20150224-1, which is not the case.
The debian policy says that the changelog entries should be included when acknowledging an NMU. Not including the changelog entries is news to me. Do you have some more background on this wrt to confusing the BTS? If so, the policy should be updated. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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