Re: 4.3/1.3 releases?

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

> > > > > "Romain" == Romain Francoise <rfrancoise () debian org> writes:
    >> Hi, I issued the 4.3 release candidates back at the end of March.
    >> I was hoping for a few "yes, it worked on obscure system FOO"
    >> reportes before I called it done, but 8 weeks later, I think it's time
    >> to release it.

    Romain> Hmm, then the announcement did not make it to the list...

I'll repost.

    >> Do you have any debian packaging diffs that we could/should include?

    Romain> You could pick up these trivial spelling fixes:

    Romain> 
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=users/rfrancoise/tcpdump.git;a=blob_plain;f=debian/patches/20_spelling.diff;hb=HEAD

okay.

    Romain> The rest is not really upstreamable.

Why?
I really want to be able to do:
  git clone ...
  dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -rfakeroot

and get identical code as from apt-get.  Why would I want to make your
life harder?

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