Bug#939663: Usage of Debian Science Git repositories [Was: freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable]

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

when attempting to salvage freefem++ from removal from testing by fixing
the very simple bug #939663 I stumbled about way more hurdles than
expected.  On one hand the repository was lacking quilt patches which I
drained from the uploaded source.  Well, that might happen.  On the other
hand I realised that the master branch contained changes inside upstream
code which were not provided as quilt patches.  I needed to revert those
changes for several files and craft quilt patches, finding out their
meaning and tried to document what problem is fixed by that patch.

I just want to take this issue as a reason to repeat to maintainers of
packages:  Please make sure you follow our team policy closely.  I have
no idea how you have build that package for uploading - for me the
default gbp-buildpackage failed due to "changes in upstream code".  This
makes helping out with RC bugs a nuisance and is demotivating to touch a
package.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 08:49:10 +0000
From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org>
To: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Subject: freefem++_3.61.1+dfsg1-5_source.changes ACCEPTED into unstable



Accepted:

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Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 09:21:24 +0200
Source: freefem++
Binary: freefem++ libfreefem++ libfreefem++-dev freefem++-doc
Architecture: source
Version: 3.61.1+dfsg1-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers <debian-science-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Description:
 freefem++  - Provides the binaries of the FreeFem++ FE suite
 freefem++-doc - Provides the documentation of the FreeFem++ FE suite
 libfreefem++ - Provides the shared libraries of the FreeFem++ FE suite
 libfreefem++-dev - Provides the development files of the FreeFem++ FE suite
Closes: 939663
Changes:
 freefem++ (3.61.1+dfsg1-5) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Team upload.
   * Build-Depends non-versioned libpetsc-real-dev and libpetsc-complex-dev
     Closes: #939663
   * debhelper-compat 12
   * Rework manual changes in source tree to quilt patches
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