[pkg-GD-devel] Bug#446290: Bug#446290: *.orig files from upstream interact badly with dh_clean

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Ian Jackson skrev:

> The upstream tarball contains a couple of *.orig files.  If you don't
> stop it, dh_clean as run by cdbs will delete these.  The diff below
> fixes this problem.

Thanks for spotting and reporting this.

I am a little puzzled, however...

You file this bugreport against the version in stable Debian, the latest
version in unstable does not have the reported problem. If I am not
confusing you with someone else, you very well know that for stable
software the only allowed changes are security-related bugfixes.

Collecting bugreports is nice, also for non-critical bugs that won't
ever be solved in Debian - it is to the benefit of our users who might
want the bugs fixed for their own systems.

But in this case, the 2 *.orig files seems to be simple left-overs of
earlier versions of files. Yes, they are mentioned in MANIFEST but seems
to do no harm at all if missing. I suspect noone will ever benefit from
keeping this bugreport open in the system.


In other words: Please elaborate on what problems you feel this bug
might cause, and what you suggest we do about it?

I suggest simply marking it as fixed in 1.44-1 and leave it at that.


Kind regards,

 - Jonas

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