[ dropping #1027032 for simplicity ] On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 10:51:34PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > [...] > My guess is that the bulk patch was hard to apply.
You guessed right. Everything mixed did not help. > So I created a fork and pushed > single commits at > > https://salsa.debian.org/tille/hello > > I intended to open a MR but it seems your repository is not configured > for this. I'm also not sure what I should learn from bug > > #1027032: hello: New upstream release 2.12.1 > > where you expressed 3.5 years ago that it is known that there is a new > upstream version but you do not explain whether this is not packaged > intentionally. Thus feel free to simply cherry pick from the repository > above depending from your intention with this package. Yes, will do. The reason I've not upgraded to the new version is that (in addition to such thing not being really urgent) I also wanted to upgrade the copyright file, which in turn required to split the changes from Osamu into individual commits. Your fork will make this definitely easier, thanks a lot. When switching to DEP5, I also would like to state that the debian/* files are in the public domain. Have those files diverged enough from their very first original version that I can do that? I think so, but I'm Cc:ing Ian to be sure (in fact, I approached him in Portland about this, maybe he remembers, but then I forgot to ask him in a more "official" way, he suggested that a gpg-signed email from him saying it's ok would be enough). Regarding enabling MRs in hello: Sorry, no, I don't like the MR workflow for the packages I maintain. However, this does not mean at all that I can't point my git repo to your fork and cherry-pick from it. It just means I don't like the MR workflow and I also don't think it should be forced on maintainers by "group pressure". Thanks.
