[Debian-med-packaging] Comments regarding phyutility_2.7.3-1_amd64.changes

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Stephen,

On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 08:33:47PM -0400, Stephen Smith wrote:
> Thanks. I am sorry, I missed this in some traveling related to work. Is it
> possible to leave that fix for the next release or does this need to be
> remedied for this one?

Since ftpmaster has accepted the package I think there is no need to take
immediate action.

> If the latter, should I change this in the source of
> phyutility (I am the developer) or better to do it within the package for
> debian? Sorry, still new to this.

I'd consider it reasonable to fix this in a next upstream version in
case this is to be expected in the next couple of weeks.  Just as an
explanation if you would not be upstream what your way as a Debian
developer would be is the following:

   1. ask upstream to remove the file in question
   2. if this would not happen in a reasonable time frame add the
      file to Files-Excluded in debian/copyright and recreate
      a tarball without this file.
   3. Upload with Version <upstreamversion>+dfsg (where "+dfsg" is
      a flag that we did some adaptations to the original tarball
      to meet DFSG (latest uscan will do this versioning for you if
      you use FIles-Excluded)

Kind regards and congratulations to your first Debian package

     Andreas.

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