Hi, when attempting to salvage freefem++ from removal from testing by fixing the very simple bug #939663 I stumbled about way more hurdles than expected. On one hand the repository was lacking quilt patches which I drained from the uploaded source. Well, that might happen. On the other hand I realised that the master branch contained changes inside upstream code which were not provided as quilt patches. I needed to revert those changes for several files and craft quilt patches, finding out their meaning and tried to document what problem is fixed by that patch.
I just want to take this issue as a reason to repeat to maintainers of packages: Please make sure you follow our team policy closely. I have no idea how you have build that package for uploading - for me the default gbp-buildpackage failed due to "changes in upstream code". This makes helping out with RC bugs a nuisance and is demotivating to touch a package. Kind regards Andreas. ----- Forwarded message from Debian FTP Masters <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org> ----- Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 08:49:10 +0000 From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmas...@ftp-master.debian.org> To: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> Subject: freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable Accepted: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Format: 1.8 Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:21:24 +0200 Source: freefem++ Binary: freefem++ libfreefem++ libfreefem++-dev freefem++-doc Architecture: source Version: 3.61.1+dfsg1-5 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintain...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Changed-By: Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> Description: freefem++ - Provides the binaries of the FreeFem++ FE suite freefem++-doc - Provides the documentation of the FreeFem++ FE suite libfreefem++ - Provides the shared libraries of the FreeFem++ FE suite libfreefem++-dev - Provides the development files of the FreeFem++ FE suite Closes: 939663 Changes: freefem++ (3.61.1+dfsg1-5) unstable; urgency=medium . * Team upload. * Build-Depends non-versioned libpetsc-real-dev and libpetsc-complex-dev Closes: #939663 * debhelper-compat 12 * Rework manual changes in source tree to quilt patches Checksums-Sha1: d5e23d3f569e3b58fead3456fbc253a03a87e5c8 2847 freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5.dsc cb84d8f8b379aaf7b22b829aa4a529621f25275e 12812 freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5.debian.tar.xz Checksums-Sha256: bf27be577285356bb770e753265a4b4b76c326ac92a1c7e927eb52d86cc35a1d 2847 freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5.dsc 37c783e37e069d2f0c04493298bd79502209cba667446b25118917874207f471 12812 freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5.debian.tar.xz Files: 025e32f698a2cf6aaf7f3291c689a8c3 2847 science optional freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5.dsc 2543a53d7e071af9211a904457871d6b 12812 science optional freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5.debian.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJFBAEBCAAvFiEE8fAHMgoDVUHwpmPKV4oElNHGRtEFAl2YU2YRHHRpbGxlQGRl Ymlhbi5vcmcACgkQV4oElNHGRtHoXQ//c+28lMpxULlu7MIDR1FTbUB8YAWh9h8a kxb+Q5ljTQyru68/vg8tg/EjleSFCGpr/SKGim2iQOCHT+V/GKv+UN3oWfXW64vQ RcG8+LtVuWaFGM/OkSqPOz8idIrSyF2BFNhTm08ImVNR4ux2Hug2Hk2O7qq2HwKq 6iFxLbTtU1yFAcZ1b0nTgAWwL5BTmL/8UBcICc6+gez/1ZoyB0XD4ZJtR3jBeZqE YSdoXNVmuSHdmShoVZmzInM9vUROQbJiV1zyVPwpZjDWJ+scxHBJiki50oqmi8Yw IN06o6n2453dBt88oJRvJT3YArj0H74HGhtz9WmjCuzGgPgbCnNlOgLCFupNtXJE 7wCTawEfebOwG7DtV8EZNxCqw+biu1Nlb+bjNfSVCTQTqUOvgX5uWCRytJq8noxz 54DlDPlkYYLX9fL25epg1WrSUKdEjjMk2KJ3phF5UqGhRniZj+57Ge28L7Cc2/7w E6bVlgVFu1CzTEP29GvL2R3L7HskRkubWF9EliejaBuor3Xni0eyl2tGF1mQ3Lpj wgobdiioW4jTzgGxnKP6YQPgC7kKz6v/0w+i9reh2SXgdIuzj2m2WVSiabCNvers mEGVfIC25T4dSX842ZygkvLTR6zFU60fjW0e5J2L6GMyATX0tfe3W4HVVDOmsaoN tnO7vTsGMhA= =5BWk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Thank you for your contribution to Debian. -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintain...@alioth-lists.debian.net https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers ----- End forwarded message ----- -- http://fam-tille.de