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Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "fig2sxd":

  * Package name    : fig2sxd

    Version         : 0.23-2

    Upstream Author : Alexander Bürger <acfb@users.sourceforge.net>

  * URL             : https://gitlab.com/acfbuerger/fig2sxd/

  * License         : GPL-2

  * Vcs             : https://gitlab.com/acfbuerger/fig2sxd.git

    Section         : graphics

It builds these binary packages:

   fig2sxd - convert XFig files to OpenOffice.org format

To access further information about this package, please visit the following URL:

https://mentors.debian.net/package/fig2sxd/

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

   dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/f/fig2sxd/fig2sxd_0.23-2.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

fig2sxd (0.23-2) unstable; urgency=low

    * New upstream version.
    * Improved debian packaging, updated compat to 13 (see #965518).

Regards,

Alexander

A new upstream version never has revision -2.

Unfortunately, the first attempt to use debhelper in debian/rules failed
to build and I only noticed that after publication on gitlab with
debian/changelog specifying version 0.23-1. The packaging fix did, of
course, not change anything outside the debian directory, so the
upstream version is unchanged. Therefore, the debian revision is now "2".

Am 19.01.2022 um 21:40 teilte Alexander Bürger mit:

Hi,
question is: "Is there a 0.23-1 version, which has been uploaded to
Debian?" and there is not.

Hilmar

I do not see any solution to this problem:

- rewriting the commit history on gitlab is not an option

- decreasing the version number (debian revision) is not an option

- uploading 0.23-1 will probably not help as that version will not build
when freshly unpacked -- if uploading is allowed at all, now that 0.23-2
has been uploaded

Do you have any suggestions how to solve this?

I noticed too late that debhelper refuses to build 0.23-1 when freshly
unpacked. The package builds fine from a directory where the program has
been built before, and I did not test building in a new directory before
uploading to mentors.debian.net.

Am 20.01.2022 um 08:49 teilte Alexander Bürger mit:

Hi,

Why not? You just have to remove the tag and rewrite the commit message.
Then fix the debian/changelog and try again.

Why not? We just have to make sure that 0.23-2 & 0.23-1 have been
removed from Debian Mentors upload queue.

Hilmar

Control: tags -1 moreinfo

Please untag moreinfo when you have provided 0.23-1.