On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 10:03:00AM +0100, Christian Kastner wrote: > Andreas, what are you doing? > > On 2019-12-25 07:52, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:39:55AM -0500, Chen-Tse Tsai wrote: > >> I just submitted a PR for dropping python2 dependencies: > >> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/libsvm/merge_requests/1 > >> > >> Any comment is appreciated. I'll be working on upgrading to new upstream. > > > > Looks very good! I injected the patch by Helmut Grohne (#862234) as well. > > 24 files changed, but debian/changelog only contains two entries. > Nothing about changes to debhelper compat level, patches, etc. It would > have been far more helpful to Chen-Tse (and thus to the team) to supply > feedback on this.
[ Andreas Tille ] * Secure URI in copyright format * Remove trailing whitespace in debian/changelog * Remove trailing whitespace in debian/control * Remove trailing whitespace in debian/copyright * Trim trailing whitespace. * Use secure URI in Homepage field. * Fix day-of-week for changelog entry 2.91-1. * Use Files-Excluded to exclude Windows binaries Compat-level was changed before: e544cbc2 (Chen-Tse Tsai 2019-12-24 22:20:23 -0500 7) debhelper-compat (= 12), > Looking at Salsa, you also imported the new upstream version 3.24 an > hour ago, something that Chen-Tse said just before that he would be > working on? Is he wasting his time now? I intended to help by recommending some automatic procedure that fixes a lot of lintian issues. > Furthermore, I indicated previously that after 3 years, we will almost > certainly need a transition (upstream's versioning does not reflect > SOVER. We arrived at liblinear4 from liblinear1 entirely from Debian > builds discovering backwards-incompatible changes). Did you check this > before updating to 3.24? > > Can you please not rush things like this? Sorry about this. I should not have uploaded. > This package has been sitting > there for 3 years, a few Christmas Holiday days more or less will not > make a difference. I (who happens to maintain another package by the > same upstream) offered to help from the 27th; this could have waited > until then and would have profited from doing so. I agree and will not rush without coordination with this package. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de