[Piuparts-devel] Bug#688736: w3c-linkchecker: modifies conffiles (policy 10.7.3): /etc/w3c/checklink.conf

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:04:15 +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:

(Shortening to/cc)

> On Mittwoch, 26. September 2012, Nicholas Bamber wrote:
> > I am however concerned that the it appears the version of piuparts which
> > generates these reports is not yet in sid, and I would like to hold off
> > working on it until it is.
> The piuparts version in sid (or elsewhere) doesn't matter, the point is your 
> package is buggy. Seriously buggy even! One can detect this (and suffer by it) 
> easily without piuparts, so please fix the bug and 

Absolutely.

And I also see Nicholas' point, because not long ago I looked at an
(complicated for me) RC bug, and I ended up building a local piuparts
package from the develop branch in git. - It just makes a better
feeling to say "I could reproduce the problem and I can confirm the
fix" than "Hm, I guess my patch fixes it but I'm not sure."

So for me it would be helpful to have development releases of
piuparts in experimental, if they are used for reporting RC bugs.

Maybe I would even offer to do such "maintainer-approved NMUs" if you
or Andreas told me "please upload commit 12345 from the develop
branch to experimental as version 0.(n+1)~expY" every now and then,
if that helped :)


Cheers,
gregor
 
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