* Rogério Brito [Sat, 07 Jul 2007 07:00:56 -0300]: > I have already packaged a private version of libvorbis with the aotuv > patch (which applies cleanly) and I also fixed some lintian warnings.
> If some mentors are interested in what I did so far, I put the sources > on my homepage: > http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/libvorbis/libvorbis_1.1.2.dfsg-2.0+aotuv5.dsc > Please, note that they are almost in a point to be uploaded to, say, > experimental, but there are some cosmetic documentation facts that need > some more attention (any comments are *QUITE* welcome). I can't believe you're looking for a sponsor for an NMU of these characteristics, even if targetted at experimental (but the changelog entry says 'unstable', btw). You don't, ever, do things like that, particularly not before mailing the bug report asking what the status of the bug is, whether the maintainer has an opinion on it, and expressing your wish to see the patch applied in an experimental version. We all appreciate enthusiasm and work put onto improving Debian, yours in this case, but sometimes enthusiasm can, by ignorance or else, go off the correct path, and this is not desirable. Consider this a friendly note pointing out that what you're trying to do here is not quite correct. Said that, and now with my libvorbis maintainer hat on, feel free to mail the bug report again as hinted above, and we can discuss things. Other options besides uploading to experimental would be uploading the patch in a separate source package, or create a separate binary package with the patch from the libvorbis source package, given that the ABI is maintained. Cheers, ( > + * debian/README.Source: fix typo; > + * debian/control: changed the ${Source-Version} substvar to > ${binary:Version} Just for the record, these two were fixed in the Bazaar branch a week ago: http://bzr.debian.org/pkg-xiph/libvorbis > + It also makes the package binNMU'able. This is not true, it already was. ) -- Adeodato Simó dato at net.com.org.es Debian Developer adeodato at debian.org I went to the race track once and bet on a horse that was so good that it took seven others to beat him! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]