Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2018-02-24 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat, Feb 24 2018, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > After several months, I think we're repeating the same arguments and > not really making any progress. So if you're unwilling to change, I > suppose it's fine for this bug to be closed or wontfixed. The next release of dgit will contain a tool

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2018-02-24 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Matthew Vernon wrote: > How so? Is there some difficulty with "git cherry-pick" or similar that I'm > missing? It is a problem for anyone who expects for Debian packaging to be complete in the files provided in the Debian archives (

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2018-02-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
On 24/02/18 15:41, Jeremy Bicha wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Matthew Vernon wrote: I've uploaded an updated pcre2 package (2 actually), which now points vcs-* to salsa. I think this fixes this bug, so would like to close it, if that's OK? I appreciate that it

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2018-02-24 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, I've uploaded an updated pcre2 package (2 actually), which now points vcs-* to salsa. I think this fixes this bug, so would like to close it, if that's OK? On 01/12/17 18:49, Jeremy Bicha wrote: The problem is that there is important metadata stored as git commits (information about

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2018-02-24 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 10:12 AM, Matthew Vernon wrote: > I've uploaded an updated pcre2 package (2 actually), which now points vcs-* > to salsa. I think this fixes this bug, so would like to close it, if that's > OK? I appreciate that it uses Vcs headers now. But my original

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2017-12-01 Thread Jeremy Bicha
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Matthew Vernon wrote: > I'm sorry you don't like dgit, and I am happy to try and make your life > easier, but fundamentally I think it's a good workflow. I'm adjusting my > workflow to more closely match that outlined in dgit-maint-merge(7), >

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2017-12-01 Thread Matthew Vernon
Hi, On 30/11/17 22:42, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Secondly, please add Vcs fields to your debian/control . That way > someone doesn't have to find and read a README first. The Vcs fields > have nice integration on pages like > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mdadm Let me deal with this first. I've

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2017-11-30 Thread Sean Whitton
Dear Jeremy, On Thu, Nov 30 2017, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > I filed https://bugs.debian.org/862425 which has now been closed. I > kinda feel like my bug was hijacked by a dgit supporter. I think that your assessment of how I responded to #862425 is unfair. It was quite reasonable for you to

Bug#883223: pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt)

2017-11-30 Thread Jeremy Bicha
Control: retitle -1 pcre2: Please switch to 3.0 (quilt) I filed https://bugs.debian.org/862425 which has now been closed. I kinda feel like my bug was hijacked by a dgit supporter. pcre2 is the first package I've noticed where dgit is used and to put it bluntly, it hasn't left a good impression.