Hi Rene, thanks a lot for your quick reply.
Am Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 12:25:30PM +0100 schrieb Rene Engelhard: > Am 10. November 2021 12:06:16 MEZ schrieb Andreas Tille <[email protected]>: > >Hi Rene, > > > >I've found coinmp at the list of smelling packages[1] and found some > >spare cycles to reduce its smell. ;-) > > > >In VCS I've found > > > > coinmp (1.8.3-2) unstable; urgency=medium > > > > * upload to unstable > > > > > >but this upload never happened. > > ??? > > > Thus I'm wondering whether you > >intentionally did not moved that version from experimental to unstable. > > Huh? What? coinmp is 1.8.3-3(!) in unstable (even testing and stable) and > 1.8.3-2 is even in old stable. Ahhhh, yes, I was not reading tracker properly - sorry about the confusion. > Probably i just forgot to commit to git.. Yes, I've just seen some -1 Version in experimental... > >Unfortunately there is an issue with debhelper compat level 13 which > >I've choosen since its calling autoreconf automatically and coinmp does > >not autoreconfigure with the new version of autoconf anyway - the build > >stops with: > (...) > > > > >So we can either revert the compat level bump from 13 back to 10 (I > >think) > > Yes, i don't like bumping compat just for bumping compat. l I'm fine with whatever compat level works for you. In the long run it has advantages to keep the same compat level in team maintained packages. > > May be latest upstream (1.8.4) has > >fixed this which I did not checked. > > Doubt that. > > >I'd like to leave those decisions rather to you as the originial uploader > >of this package before I might break anything. > > I'd say there is nothing to see here except that I maybe should upload 1.8.4 > (but that changed the soname backwards...) > > P.S.; > > >[1] https://trends.debian.net/packages-with-smells-sorted-by-maintainer.txt > > The only thing which smells here is the fact that such a list even exists. Well, in the case of coinmp the hint to some missing VCS field is sensible and I wished you could incorporate my changes (except the compat level bump into your next upload). It fixes a lot of lintian issues without any manual effort. Thanks for maintaining coinmp Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de

