Hello, The first reason I do it is to help. I have already done modification but no one integrated my RFS: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848384 And now I think Andreas Beckman from QA as uploaded another version... https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=831195
I don't really understand, I am new to the process. Regards, Vincent Carluer 2016-12-31 18:04 GMT+01:00 Eduard Bloch <bl...@unix-ag.uni-kl.de>: > On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 21:05:24 +0100 Vincent Carluer <vcarl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I would be glad to adopt this package if it is OK with you. >> I am a senior dev newbie with Debian dev/packaging but motivated :D >> >> I've talked about the idea to adopt this package to debian-mentors and it >> seems they agree it could be a good idea. >> >> They said to me there is a RC bug (Fails To Build From Source) I should >> start to fix and than the stretch freeze is close. >> >> So do you agree than I adopt xmacro? >> Can you help me a little to start? >> What is the next step? >> Do you have any other advice? > > Hello, > > no special advice. You can take it if you want but I really hope that > you actually use it and don't take it as a sandbox for practicing. > > You can find the diff attached. This is something I wanted to upload > today (in the hope that it will make it before freeze) since I forgot > about your mail (and I cannot find it anymore in my mailbox, sorry). > > It's not perfect way of solving this in terms of best packaging > practices (inline patch instead of patch series, installed as > auto-generated single-debian-patch). But I wouldn't mess with patch > series maintenance for such trivial changes. > > Regards, > Eduard.