On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:15:35AM +0200, Gunter Königsmann wrote:
> Thanks for the offer of doing an NMU.
Thanks, done.
> Currently the wxMaxima manual is in transition from a HTML file made
> with a proprietary tool to a .md file that can be edited by the
> maintainers and (using pandoc and po4a) can be converted into localized
> HTML.
That sounds great in the wider context, but any changes to how you
maintain your docs are not even slightly relevant to this transition.
> As soon as that is done a new wxMaxima release will take place that I
> will upload to unstable: I was trying to avoid uploading a
> nearly-obsolete version of the program.
There's no need for a new upstream release to make a Debian upload.
That's a common trap to fall in to when Debian maintainer is upstream
(I know I fell into it myself when I was new to Debian) but it's not a
helpful approach to take - it results in delaying making fixes to
Debian, and pointless release churn upstream.
The question should really be whether an upload would be an improvement
over what's currently in Debian, not whether it's better than some
not-yet-existing upcoming release. In your mind the version we'd upload
is "nearly-obsolete", but then the version currently in unstable it
would replace is at least as much so.
By uploading the change now we get wider testing of it, especially if
your new upstream release takes longer to make. This way you don't
need to feel under time pressure to make the upstream release to address
this bug, but if your new release is ready you can just upload and we've
only lost the small amount of time it took for me to rebuild the
package.
Cheers,
Olly
