Hi Adam, On Friday, 6 October 2017 1:17 PM, Adam Borowski wrote: > # Does your NMU really fix bugs? ("Bugs" means any kind of bugs, e.g. > # wishlist bugs for packaging a new upstream version, but care should be > # taken to minimize the impact to the maintainer.) Fixing cosmetic issues or > # changing the packaging style (e.g. switching from cdbs to dh) in NMUs is > # discouraged.
> These rules are less strict than, for example, a stable upload, but there's > still a good reason to minimize changes not coordinated with the maintainer. Ah, so package compatibility and lintian issues are considered to be "cosmetic" in this case? > Sorry for not being clear: I've put "hostile" into quotation marks, as it's > irrational to be angry for someone else making fixes in your packages -- at > least if the fixes are important enough, and the maintainer didn't do so in > a timely matter. But it happens that certain maintainers consider their > packages a fiefdom and treat everyone as intruders even if they don't do > their job properly. Thanks for the explanation. > In #786562: > } I am no longer active in libexif maintenance but I had a look at the > } NMU diff and it looks fine to me; I'd suggest you to go ahead and > } upload that. > Ie, we're here. As the changes were okay'ed, we can proceed with cosmetic > changes. Perfect. Looks like I moved too quickly on this. Lesson learnt. >> Files: po/en_GB.po >> Copyright: 2009, Bruce Cowan >> License: LGPL-2.1+ >> [...] >> Files: po/en_GB.po >> Copyright: 2010, Robert Readman >> License: LGPL-2.1+ >> >> This causes lintian to complain that the first occurrence is not used. > That's because the first occurrence indeed is not used. The second one > overrides it. You instead need to write: > > Files: po/en_GB.po > Copyright: 2009, Bruce Cowan > 2010, Robert Readman > License: LGPL-2.1+ > > (Any line starting with whitespace is a continuation.) Okay, that makes sense. I'm now re-reading the Debian copyright specifications document. Thanks for your help. I hope to upload a new version of this package in the next few days. Hugh