Bug#852434: cowdancer 0.84 MIGRATED to testing

[James Clarke]

On 30 Jan 2017, at 22:10, Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:
> 
> Debian testing watch dixit:
> 
>> FYI: The status of the cowdancer source package
>> in Debian's testing distribution has changed.
>> 
>> Previous version: 0.83
>> Current version:  0.84
> 
> Why did this migrate with an RC bug currently open against it
> preventing it from working?
> 
> Wait, what? Looking at build log…
> 
>   [36]Message #15 received at 852434 at bugs.debian.org ([37]full text, [38]mbox, [39]reply):
> 
>   From: James Clarke <jrtc27 at debian.org>
>   To: Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de>, 852434 at bugs.debian.org
> 
> Why did I never get those messages? (I’m even subscribed to
> the package!)

Your mail server rejected my message (again). My guess is you didn't get the
message from the mailing list because it saw it was already addressed to you.
Since you get messages sent by the BTS, I've included -submitter in To: this
time.

> I disagree that --build is a command; it is an option that expects
> an argument (the .dsc file).
> 
> Please revert this!

What's your reasoning? This was never officially supported. Ever. Just give the
command first, like everyone has always had to do for pbuilder. And yes --build
*is* a command; it says so in the manpage[0]. Whether or not *you* think it is
is irrelevant. All it takes is for you to change the order of the arguments you
give to your c script.

Regards,
James

[0] Since 0.14, which was May 2006.