Bug#918315: hyphen should import upstream changes that are lingering in git

2019-01-07 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Control: forwarded -1 https://github.com/hunspell/hyphen/issues/17
Control: tag -1 wontfix

On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 05:45:51PM -0500, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> the hyphen package hasn't had a release in several years.

So it seems, I've opened a bug upstream to ask for a new release, let's
see what happens.

> however, there are several useful-looking changes (including cleanup in
> the build scripts) in git (upstream uses
> https://github.com/hunspell/hyphen for hosting, afaict).
> 
> It might be good to import some of those changes.  at the least, it
> would remove some autoconf warnings that we see otherwise.

Indeed some of those clean ups are useful, and there are also a couple
of pure bugfixes in it.
I mean, I could loop and take in all the patches, or just a single big
diff since the last release, but it would be a bit silly, let's see what
upstream thinks (if they'll answer).

I'm closing this bug as wontfix for now, unless you think there is a
particular change that deserves to be cherry-picked.

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Bug#918315: hyphen should import upstream changes that are lingering in git

2019-01-04 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: src:hyphen
Version: 2.8.8-5
Severity: wishlist

the hyphen package hasn't had a release in several years.

however, there are several useful-looking changes (including cleanup in
the build scripts) in git (upstream uses
https://github.com/hunspell/hyphen for hosting, afaict).

It might be good to import some of those changes.  at the least, it
would remove some autoconf warnings that we see otherwise.

  --dkg