On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 03:52:56PM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote: > Le 31/05/2026 à 14:17, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > > I've prepared an NMU for httpcomponents-core5 (versioned as 5.4.2-1.1) > > and uploaded it to DELAYED/15. Please feel free to tell me if I should > > cancel it. > > Thank you for the patch Adrian, > > However I don't really understand why the date of the NOTICE.txt file is an > issue. Who cares? This should be a pedantic level Lintian warning, and not a > cause for removal from testing.
It is an autoreject when uploading the binary package, you have to discuss with the archive operations team if you disagree with that. > Regarding the proposed fix, I think the best would be to fetch the upstream > tarball from GitHub rather than the Apache archive site, this will ensure > the timestamps are right. For an NMU I went for the smallest fix, if you have a better solution for a maintainer upload that's great. > Emmanuel Bourg cu Adrian
