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   Rene Engelhard to All   
   Bug#1128731: NMU of textdraw to delayed=   
   23 Feb 26 21:40:01   
   
   From: rene@debian.org   
      
   Hi,   
      
   Am 23.02.26 um 21:22 schrieb Andreas Tille:   
   > to provide some context: Wolfram Sang is a Kernel developer.  He found   
   > this bug in textdraw and joined the Debian Med Sprint to refresh his   
   > Debian packaging skills.  We had a nice evening, he fixed the RC bug and   
   > while striving for perfectness fixed a lot of compiler warnings - great.   
      
   I wasn't questioning the patches itself and also would have just applied them.   
      
   > My goal was to demonstrate what else can be changed in the packaging so   
   > I picked the lintian warning about newer watch file standard.  The   
   > upload to delayed=10 was done to somehow complete the sprint session.   
      
   a watch v4 -> v5 is even a lesser NMU-worthy thing.   
      
   > I was thanking Wolfram for his kind and dedicated help and the nice chat   
   > we had.  What might be nice as well if the package maintainer would   
   > thank him for the contribution as well.   
      
   That's implied by the changelog.   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
      
   Rene   
      
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