On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:14 +0000, Paul Gevers wrote: > > I can't find a changelog in the package, however I can see the changes are > > pretty big. > > I'm afraid that indeed the changes are pretty big and that because > upstream and debian maintenance are intermixed, the debian package does > not excel in clean packaging. And unfortunately I did not find a clear > changelog, apart from the debian/changelog remarks.
I reviewed the packaging changes, and they seem to be fine. It's the size of the upstream code changes that I was commenting on. > > This doesn't qualify for an automatic feature freeze exception in > > my opinion. > > So, I sort of gave up on the idea of getting it into Intrepid, but I am > very willing to help. I just don't know what information is needed. I have provided the information that is usually required. If anyone on the release team needs any more they will ask, and it would be great if you could find it for them. > > I'm preparing the info~stevenkrmation to request one. It would be good > > to know what testing you have done. > > Unfortunately I have not done much testing, except that I use the newly > build fpc and lazarus binaries to build my winff package in my PPA. That > works fine, but than again, the package is pretty simple and small. > > Please, if I can be of any help to test or anything, just give me some > idea of what to do. I am also considering of offering help to the debian > packager to get a cleaner package for the future. Any testing you can do with the updated package would be great. The perfect test would be rebuilding everything that uses fpc and testing the results. Thanks, James -- Please sync fpc 2.2.2-3 (universe) with patch from bug #260464 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275688 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
