[Pkg-octave-devel] Updating the Uploaders field to better reflect personal commitments

[Mike Miller]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 15:31:11 +0200, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le jeudi 26 juin 2014 à 20:57 +0200, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
>> * Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-06-26 20:21]:
[...]
>> > That leaves us with 20 packages to be adopted. I see two possible
>> > solutions: either list all team members in the Uploaders field, or
>> > distribute packages randomly across team members. I guess the former
>> > solution is better. What do you think?
>>
>> Yes, the former proposal is more sensible.
>
> I have implemented all the points mentioned above.
>
> I have also documented the new rules for the Uploaders field on our wiki
> page.

I neglected to jump in before, but this looks good to me too.

> I will probably proceed to several uploads before the Jessie freeze,
> especially for packages which have not been updated during the Jessie
> cycle, but which have nevertheless accumulated several small changes in
> their git repository.

Including src:octave I presume? Have you had a chance to test the hdf5
transition? I have done a test build of octave with proposed patches
but no rdeps yet. I plan to do some more test builds to verify the
patches, especially octave-communications which explicitly links to
hdf5, may need its own patch.

-- 
mike