Control: tag -1 + moreinfo On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 01:55:08PM +0200, Daniel Pocock wrote: > A lot of that is because the autotools artifacts (e.g. Makefile.in) are > quite big and have been regenerated on each release > > Other things can also be ignored, for example, there are lots of XML > files for the Windows build system (Visual Studio) but those are ignored > on Linux builds. All the changes in those files are ignored. > > I could provide a diff that eliminates changes in such files.
Yes, please. > > deletions(-)" and adds two new packages. We'd need a lot of convincing > > that the latter is worth doing, rather than just proving updates via > > backports (fwiw, I'm only aware of one occasion where a new package was > > introduced to a release once it was stable, and that was > > openssh-blacklist via security.d.o, which is a somewhat different > > situation). > > That is because I diffed the tag for the wheezy package against the tag > on the unstable package > > If you are comfortable with the basic aim of updating this package, then > I will merge the 1.8.12 upstream release with the original wheezy > packaging artifacts and submit a more precise diff for final approval. > The set of packages will then remain the same, no new package will be added. I think 'final approval' is a bit optimistic in this case. But there's no point discussing anything without seeing your proposed diff (though if you find yourself spending time on this that's probably an indication of much it's worth fixing this). Thanks, -- Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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