On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 19:56 +0000, Colin Ian King wrote: > On 22/01/17 19:10, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I noticed that you uploaded a "smemstat" package to the proposed-updates > > queue for Debian jessie. > > > > The metadata for the bug referenced in the changelog (#852070) indicates > > that the bug also affects the version of the package in unstable. If > > that's correct, please fix the bug in unstable first; if it's not, > > please fix the metadata. > > Thanks for looking at this. The fix is in unstable, so how do I fix up > the metadata? I'm not sure what you mean.
The simplest way, once you've determined which upload of smemstat to Debian first included the fix, is to send "fixed 852070 $version" to [email protected]. > > For any future uploads to stable, please open an appropriately-tagged > > bug against the release.debian.org pseudo-package ("reportbug > > release.debian.org" is the simplest way of getting the metadata right) > > to discuss the upload first. In this case, the patch itself looks okay > > but we'd have requested that the version used be 0.01.10-1+deb8u1. > > Ah, OK, so if need to upload again, I guess it will be 0.01.10-2+debu1 > since I've now uploaded 0.01-10-2. Indeed. Regards, Adam
