Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > Am Thu, Feb 24, 2022 at 11:58:12PM +0900 schrieb Osamu Aoki: >> > This is probably very academic now since Andreas Tille has uploaded a >> > fixed >> > xdelta3 package today. >> >> Now that I know that the new xdelta3 is uploaded, I am OK. > > BTW, I stumbled upon xdelta3 since also a package of mine received this > autoremoval warning. Usually I try to take action on it. > > I had to decide between a "proper NMU" and an "upload that fits the > packaging standards I apply to what I upload" (which includes maintained > on Salsa, usage of dh, DEP5 copyright ... basically removing the smell > from the package). I decided for the latter but at the same time I > was aware that I violated the rules we gave given each other.
FWIW I also started work on xdelta3 when I saw the removal warning for installation-guide, but when I got to the point of creating a repo on salsa you'd beaten me to it by about an hour :-) I'd gone for a slightly lighter-touch approach, in that I'd only done about half of what you'd done, but having looked, you had clearly done a much more thorough job, and I had nothing to add. I had replaced CDBS with dh simply because CDBS was FTBFS, and was only a minimal 2-includes rules file, so it wasn't really contributing anything that would justify working out how to fix it. > Given the fact that there was a nearly 4 year old patch (#895957) made > me feel that I'm not alone with this but on the other hand the creator > of the patch (thanks Jeremy for doing at least half of the necessary > work) hesitated to upload his work. This brings up again the discussion > about how much changes are allowed to simply remove smell from packages > is accepted. Given that the bug that's threatening its removal (#965883) has been ignored for almost 2 years, and is about the fact that it had a dh compat version of 5, which is completely trivial to fix, so the package certainly has the look of having been abandoned, which is why I think it's fine to do what you did, and I think you did a very good job of it. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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