On Apr 15, Jonathan Wiltshire <j...@debian.org> wrote:

> >   * etc-services: removed console (782/tcp).
> >     Reverted because #658077 was totally bogus: this entry is not useful.
> Possibly, if this actually causes a problem. Is it harmless to leave it in
> place?
It is harmful if appears in a release and somebody uses it, because 
then it will be much harder to remove.

> >   * etc-services: added urd (465/tcp). ssmtp and smtps kept as aliases.
> >     (Closes: #703175)
> "Only" severity normal...
> >   * etc-services: added db-lsp (17500/tcp). (Closes: #695708)
> ... wishlist ...
> >   * etc-protocols: added hopopt (0). (Closes: #675339)
> ... wishlist ...
Yes, but they are all trivial changes.

> >   * Removed ip6-localnet and ip6-mcastprefix from the default /etc/hosts
> >     created by postinst because they have no purpose. (Closes: #688090)
> ... and normal.
This has barely any effect since the code is triggered only if 
/etc/hosts does not exists (and usually it always exist, since d-i 
creates it and changed it this way long ago).

> If those severities aren't accurate please tell the bts. Otherwise, no they
> are no longer changes we consider urgent. They are all old bugs and could
> have been cleared up in plenty of time before now.
OK, I suck as a maintainer and as a human being and I neglected my 
packages for most of the last year.
But I'd rather move on and fix what can still be fixed.

> >   * Made the package Multi-Arch foreign. (Closes: #688396)
> Definitely not.
Why? netbase is just four config files nowadays, it's not like declaring 
it foreign could break anything.

> >   * Slightly raised the ifupdown Breaks version to match Ubuntu.
> Is there are technical reason for this or just a courtesy to our
> derivatives?
No technical reason, the delta is a few releases which only existed 
in unstable for a short time (and nobody is supposed to be using anymore
due to them being quite "experimental").

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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