[Pkg-mono-devel] RFS: libanculus-sharp

[Mirco Bauer]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:51:56 +0200
David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:19:00 +0200, Mirco Bauer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:32:22 +0200
> > David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Please take a look at it:
> > > 
> > > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-cli-libs/packages/libanculus-sharp/trunk
> > > 
> > > I believe there's nothing to fix. But if there's some Group Policy
> > > violation, please tell me, I don't want a buggy package in
> > > Debian :)
> > 
> > The package looks good to me except the changelog. You can't remove
> > old entries from it (as in changing history) and you can't re-use a
> > debian revision (-1) that is already in the debian archive. Please
> > put the old changelog back and add a clean -2 entry closing all the
> > said bugs (reports).
> 
> Ok, sorry.
> I never reintroduced a package which was removed, that's why I also
> unarchived the ITP -- I wanted to close it again :)
> However, -1 was removed also from testing, so there's no -1 in Debian
> currently. Am I wrong?

You know the difference between debian/testing and debian/unstable? RC
buggy packages are only removed from testing as they don't meet the
release quality. But that doesn't mean the software in general should
never be in debian... See:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/liba/libanculus-sharp.html

Hm I would sponsor this package now if my GPG wouldn't behave funny
right now :(

> 
> > This old changelog looked very correct to me:
> > http://svn.debian.org/viewsvn/pkg-cli-libs/packages/libanculus-sharp/trunk/debian/changelog?rev=3789&view=markup
> 
> Change reverted, see rev3826.
> 
> Thanks for reviewing the package once again.
> 
> Kindly,
> David
> 

Mirco