Andreas, what are you doing? On 2019-12-25 07:52, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:39:55AM -0500, Chen-Tse Tsai wrote: >> I just submitted a PR for dropping python2 dependencies: >> https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/libsvm/merge_requests/1 >> >> Any comment is appreciated. I'll be working on upgrading to new upstream. > > Looks very good! I injected the patch by Helmut Grohne (#862234) as well.
24 files changed, but debian/changelog only contains two entries. Nothing about changes to debhelper compat level, patches, etc. It would have been far more helpful to Chen-Tse (and thus to the team) to supply feedback on this. Looking at Salsa, you also imported the new upstream version 3.24 an hour ago, something that Chen-Tse said just before that he would be working on? Is he wasting his time now? Furthermore, I indicated previously that after 3 years, we will almost certainly need a transition (upstream's versioning does not reflect SOVER. We arrived at liblinear4 from liblinear1 entirely from Debian builds discovering backwards-incompatible changes). Did you check this before updating to 3.24? Can you please not rush things like this? This package has been sitting there for 3 years, a few Christmas Holiday days more or less will not make a difference. I (who happens to maintain another package by the same upstream) offered to help from the 27th; this could have waited until then and would have profited from doing so.