Re: Question concerning BTS, my own patch and upstream bugfix

[Oliver Meißner]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:02:43 +0500
Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:38:25AM +0200, Oliver Meißner wrote:
>> How should I deal with this patch? 
>> 
>> * Leave it inside my current package (ver 3.5-2), close the bug via
>>   (Closes: #893812) in d/changelog and remove the patch with the next
>>   upstream release
>> or
>> * Remove the patch from my package, don't close the bug and wait for
>> the next upstream release?  
>How is the second option better?

maybe the first option confuses someone...

OK, I'll to it the first way, thanks.

Regards
O. Meißner <oliver+deb...@la-familia-grande.de>


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Question concerning BTS, my own patch and upstream bugfix

[Oliver Meißner]

Hi,

just a short Question how to handle following situation properly

I'm about to adopt the storebackup package and fixed bug #893812 by
including a patch into the package. While waiting for a sponsor I got
the information from the upstream author, that he'd fixed that bug in
his next release, but it's not clear when he will release the next
version, because there's still other work to be done.

The question is:
How should I deal with this patch? 

* Leave it inside my current package (ver 3.5-2), close the bug via
  (Closes: #893812) in d/changelog and remove the patch with the next
  upstream release
or
* Remove the patch from my package, don't close the bug and wait for the
  next upstream release?

What would you do?

Regards, 
Olly

Bug#895589: RFS: storebackup/3.5-2+nmu3 [ITA] -- fancy compressing managing checksumming deduplicating hard-linkin 'cp -ua'

[Oliver Meißner]

>If you upload a newer version, you recycle
>the old one and just change title. 

makes sense, thanks for the info.

Olly

Bug#895730: RFS: storebackup/3.5-2 [ITA] -- fancy compressing managing checksumming deduplicating hard-linking cp -ua

[Oliver Meißner]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "storebackup"

 * Package name: storebackup
   Version : 3.5-2
   Upstream Author : Heinz-Josef Claes
 * URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/storebackup
 * License : GPL-3
   Section : utils

It builds those binary packages:

storebackup - fancy compressing managing checksumming deduplicating
hard-linking cp -ua

To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/storebackup

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
command:

dget -x

https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/storebackup/storebackup_3.5-2.dsc

More information about hello can be obtained from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/storebackup

Changes since the last upload:
  * New Maintainer (Closes: #856299)
  * New Upstream release
version: 3.5, (Closes: #721481, #883666)
  * fix missing -R option in storeBackup.pl and storeBackupDel.pl
(Closes: #893812)
  * Update patch fix-spelling-errors to match new upstream version
  * Fix shebang of perl-scripts to match debian policy
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.1.4
  * Fixed wrong link to shutter.git in vcs-*-fields
  * Remove broken debian/watch

Best regards,
Olly Meißner 

Bug#895589: RFS: storebackup/3.5-2+nmu3 [ITA] -- fancy compressing managing checksumming deduplicating hard-linkin 'cp -ua'

[Oliver Meißner]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "storebackup"

 * Package name: storebackup
   Version : 3.5-2+nmu3
   Upstream Author : Heinz-Josef Claes
 * URL : http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/storebackup
 * License : GPL-3
   Section : utils

It builds those binary packages:

storebackup - fancy compressing managing checksumming deduplicating
hard-linkin 'cp -ua'

To access further information about this package, please visit the
following URL:

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/storebackup

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this
command:

dget -x

https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/s/storebackup/storebackup_3.5-2+nmu3.dsc

More information about storeBackup can be obtained from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/storebackup

Changes since the last upload:
  * Non-maintainer upload
  * New Upstream release
version: 3.5, (Closes: #721481, #883666)
  * Update patch fix-spelling-errors to match new upstream version
  * Fix shebang of perl-scripts to match debian policy
  * Update Standards-Version to 4.1.4
  * Fixed wrong link to shutter.git in vcs-*-fields
  * Remove broken debian/watch

Because I'm completely new to the debian packaging process, this is
"just" an NMU in the first step. Since I'm programming for about 20
years now, I intend to contribute the debian project by adopting this
orphaned package (and maybe later some more). But first things first,
and now I'm looking for a sponsor and a mentor to guide me through all
the Questions the docs can't answer. 

I'm using debian for many years and now I think it's time to give back
what the project gave to me. So I spend a couple of days reading all
the packaging related docs and tried my best to build this package.

I've contacted the upstream author yesterday by email (without a reply
yet). The original debian maintainer - Ryan Niebur - seems to be not
available anymore. A comment in the BTS (#739135) from the upstream
author at 16 Feb 2014 says, that the maintainer did not reply to any
email.

Best Regards,
   Oliver Meißner