Proposed update to python-debian

John Wright jsw at debian.org
Mon Jan 2 23:07:26 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 06:41:30PM +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-12-28 at 15:45 -0800, John Wright wrote:
> > Attached is a patch to the python-debian package which I intend to
> > upload to stable.  It fixes #597249 [1], which causes problems for some
> > well-formed data.  Specifically, it is problematic when parsing Vcs-Cvs
> > headers, like
> > 
> >   Vcs-Cvs: :ext:_anoncvs at anoncvs.mirbsd.org:/cvs contrib/hosted/tg/deb/cvs
> 
> Looking at the debdiff of the uploaded package, I noticed that it
> contains a copy of the patch itself (including the changelog entry),
> together with the applied changes.  As the package is native and doesn't
> use any form of patch system, was this intentional or simply some sort
> of cruft from the build environment?

I use git format-patch, and forgot to move the patch out of the way
before building the source package.  Should I just upload a re-generated
source package without the patch cruft, or is there a different
procedure to follow?

Sorry about that.

-- 
John Wright <jsw at debian.org>



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