Hi Santiago,
Am Tue, May 12, 2026 at 11:35:33PM +0200 schrieb Santiago Vila:
> 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.
Thanks to the missing Wifi in the trains from Hamburg I was able
to spent time on this. ;-)
> > 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 agree its not urgent and might be even intentional to show how to
upgrade a package.
> 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.
Happa to help.
> 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 have no idea but currently these files are not even specified. I
simply added a paragraph that took the license from "Files: *". My gut
feeling is that previous authors (noticed you added Ian) might be OK
with public domain.
> 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.
OK. Feel free to cherry pick your way.
> 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".
Fine for me.
Thank you for your work on hello
Andreas.
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