[request-tracker-maintainers] Help patching files in dependency package

[Tobias Wackenhut]

Hi Andrew and Dominic,

thank you both for looking into this :) .

On 17.01.23 12:03, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-01-17 at 10:10 +0000, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
>> However, Tobias, I don't see any patch that needs to be applied in
>> <https://metacpan.org/release/BPS/RT-Extension-ResetPassword-1.12/source/README <https://metacpan.org/release/BPS/RT-Extension-ResetPassword-1.12/source/README>>
>> - Debian already has RT 5.0.3 (>= 5.0.2)?
> 
> Support for RT5 was introduced in RT::Extension::ResetPassword v1.07 
> which is in Sid & Bookworm.

Hmm, I'm talking about the install section of the README where it says:

[...]
     Install Patches
         This is to enable searches for users with a password set.

         For RT 5 prior to 5.0.2, apply this:

             patch -p1 -d /opt/rt5 < patches/user-admin-callbacks.patch
[patch files for other versions]
[...]

> I have updated packages for 1.12, they just haven't been uploaded yet. 
> I've just pushed the branches to Salsa.

Uuh, cool. I was looking at what changes have been made and so far could 
not find anything related to these patches. Are these still necessary?

If so, I think the changes in the patch files are something that might 
be possible to integrate in the core rt4/5 packages as they add pretty 
generic callbacks.


If you would be fine with that, I'd be happy if you could give me the 
opportunity try to implement a fix by myself when it is clearer what 
would need to be done. I was hoping to make a small PR to practice :) . 
So far I've only tried maintaining some packages left behind by a DD in 
a private repo after they moved somewhere else and would like to take 
small steps towards the Debian project community.

Best

Tobias