Hi John,
I saw your request on the debian-au mailing list.
On Fri, 29 May 2026 23:35:36 +1000 John Zaitseff wrote:
> Dear mentors,
>
> As per Tobias Frost's request, I am resending my request for
> sponsorship to this bug #1062001 (originally #1136984).
> [...]
> Changes since the last upload:
>
> trader (7.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium
>
> * New upstream release: includes a fix for the FTBFS seen under
> Autoconf 2.73. Closes: #1135930.
> * Updated to Debian Policy 4.7.4: removed "Priority: optional" from
> debian/control as this is now the default.
> * Moved to dpkg-build-api v1 for building.
> * Adjusted build dependencies as required for Debian old-stable.
> * Removed Vcs-Browser from debian/control as the URL in this field was
> being subjected to a continual and sustained DDOS. Closes: #1132702.
> * Changed Vcs-Git link to use HTTPS instead of the Git protocol.
> * Added details of all relevant source files to debian/copyright (as
> requested by Tobias Frost).
> * Enabled build hardening in debian/rules.
> * Converted debian/watch to version 5 format.
> * Removed superfluous signatures from debian/upstream/signing-key.asc.
> * Incorporates changes made to previous upstream releases (not uploaded
> to Debian): changed documentation (history of the game), updated
> translations, renamed AppStream metainfo and desktop files.
This update is looking good.
Looking at your changelog, I wondered about: "Adjusted build
dependencies as required for Debian old-stable."
We are uploading to unstable/Sid, so your version constraints aren't
necessary.
In saying that, I compared your d/control files between trader versions.
gettext 0.22 isn't available in oldstable/Bookworm anyway. Unless you
have something else in mind from the changelog entry?
A copyright check identified some minor discrepancies with the copyright
years for the following files, compared to what you have listed in
d/copyright.
lib/crc-generate-table.c
lib/crc-sliceby8.h
lib/crc.c
lib/crc.h
lib/wcsdup-impl.h
lib/wcsdup.c
lib/wctob.c
po/eo.*
po/fi.*
po/fr.*
po/sr.*
Can you please check these?
Let me know when you've had a chance to update d/copyright and uploaded.
I'll then run dpkg-buildpackage, sign and upload for you.
Hugh
