Thanks for the upload! sön 2026-09-27 klockan 21:07 +0200 skrev Santiago Vila: > > It would be nice if wdiff in Debian could be updated to latest > > upstream > > version, see release announcement below. > > > > As temporary new upstream maintainer, I will go through all Debian > > wdiff > > bug reports and see if anything applies upstream, and I could > > assist > > with Debian packaging too if you want. > > I did not find any special trouble in the packaging, but if you can > review the bug reports in the BTS, that would be great.
It is on my todo list! And another release, to get updated translations incorporated. > > Consider using upstream git instead of tarballs as the source, for > > better supply-chain auditability, although doing so requires a bit > > of > > work (compare e.g., libntlm or libidn2 packaging for gnulib magic). > > Indeed, using git instead of tarballs adds a complexity which I > consider undesired, so I'll keep the traditional tarballs for now. > (Life is too short...) > > However, I've done the proper thing with the .sig file and the pgp > keys, so I believe the supply-chain is in a good state. More to the > point, you are not a "Mr. Unknown", you are a known person in the > free > software world, and I trust you :-) No worries, and I fully sympathize with using the tarballs -- using git increases some complexity and bootstrapping costs, but reduces the number of vendored files. It is a subjective balance which to prefer. /Simon
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