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From: Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>
To: mlmmj@mlmmj.org
Subject: Re: [mlmmj] distribution "dead upstream" discussion
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 17:14:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5ba7335-440e-ac03-2a09-fc684e61fd87@goirand.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6763fd2-a7ca-1c16-b304-43d1ce0b09da@coredump.us>

On 1/27/21 4:58 PM, Chris Knadle wrote:
>> MLMMJ is of very low need for maintenance, both upstream or in the
>> Debian package. So much that our Debian source package is bit-rotting,
>> and would need a real clean-up (to switch to the dh sequencer, for a
>> start, and probably many other stuff...).
> 
> Yes, the Debian mlmmj package is bit-rotting some, because there's no
> new versions to upload nor new bugs to prompt making a new upload. I
> don't see the point of updating the debian/rules file to dh unless MLMMJ
> development is picked up again, but I am interested in doing that if
> that happens.

The point is that it helps to keep your package up-to-date for new
stuff. For example, the current version of the package doesn't call
dh_strip_nondeterminism which is a new thing, and which dh calls.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-02-02 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-21 10:35 [mlmmj] distribution "dead upstream" discussion Chris Knadle
2021-01-21 17:43 ` webmaster
2021-01-21 21:59 ` Geert Stappers
2021-01-21 22:09 ` Eric Wong
2021-01-21 22:40 ` Christof Thalhofer
2021-01-22  3:50 ` Chris Knadle
2021-01-22  3:57 ` Chris Knadle
2021-01-22  6:03 ` Mads Martin Jørgensen
2021-01-25 17:20 ` Thomas Goirand
2021-01-26  0:14 ` Mads Martin Jørgensen
2021-01-27 15:58 ` Chris Knadle
2021-02-02 17:14 ` Thomas Goirand [this message]
2021-02-03 21:02 ` Chris Knadle

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