#1136984 RFS: trader/7.21-1 -- simple game of interstellar trading

#1136984#5
Date:
2026-05-18 05:55:05 UTC
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Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my updated package "trader", a
simple game of interstellar trading.  This update fixes a FTBFS
listed in bug #1135930:

  Package name:    trader
  Version:         7.21-1
  Upstream author: John Zaitseff <J.Zaitseff@zap.org.au> -- that's me!
  URL:             https://www.zap.org.au/projects/trader/
  License:         GPL3+
  Vcs:             https://git.zap.org.au/git/trader.git -b with-debian
  Section:         games

It builds one binary package:

  trader - simple game of interstellar trading

I have successfully built binaries using Debian chroots on The ZAP
Group Australia server.  You can download my build using dget:

  dget -x https://ftp.zap.org.au/pub/trader/unix/binary/debian/trader_7.21-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

  trader (7.21-1) unstable; urgency=medium

    * New upstream release: includes a fix for the FTBFS seen under
      Autoconf 2.73.  Closes: #1135930.
    * Updated to Debian Policy 4.7.4: removed "Priority: optional" from
      debian/control as this is now the default.
    * Moved to dpkg-build-api v1 for building.
    * Adjusted build dependencies as required for Debian old-stable.
    * Removed Vcs-Browser from debian/control as the URL in this field was
      being subjected to a continual and sustained DDOS.  Closes: #1132702.
    * Changed Vcs-Git link to use HTTPS instead of the Git protocol.
    * Added details of all relevant source files to debian/copyright (as
      requested by Tobias Frost).
    * Enabled build hardening in debian/rules.
    * Converted debian/watch to version 5 format.
    * Removed superfluous signatures from debian/upstream/signing-key.asc.
    * Incorporates changes made to previous upstream releases (not uploaded
      to Debian): changed documentation (history of the game), updated
      translations, renamed AppStream metainfo and desktop files.

#1136984#16
Date:
2026-05-29 12:35:31 UTC
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(please don't file new RFS when the old one has not been spoonsored;
instead, reopen the old bug and continue there.)

#1136984#31
Date:
2026-05-29 13:26:20 UTC
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The tag moreinfo is still valid, as there are still embedded
convienience code copies in the form of autotools macros available in
autotools-archive and gnulib sources/headers which are mostly
identical.

See #1062001#53 for original review on this topic.