#1144466 RFS: xsnow/1:3.9.4-1 [RC] -- brings Christmas to your desktop

#1144466#5
Date:
2026-08-15 13:16:22 UTC
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To:
Dear mentors,

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

  * Package name     : xsnow
    Version          : 1:3.9.4-1
    Upstream contact : Willem Vermin <wvermin@gmail.com>
  * URL              : https://sourceforge.net/projects/xsnow/
  * License          : MIT-open-group, LGPL-2.1+, GPL, FSFAP, MIT-CMU, FSFULLR, BSD-3-Clause, HPND-sell-variant-and/or-NTP~disclaimer, GPL-3+
  * Vcs              : [fill in URL of packaging vcs]
    Section          : games

The source builds the following binary packages:

   xsnow - brings Christmas to your desktop

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

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

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

   dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/x/xsnow/xsnow_3.9.4-1.dsc

Changes since the last upload:

  xsnow (1:3.9.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
  .
    * New upstream release
    * Closes: 1142859
    * Changed tests/test2.sh again to accommodate slower systems

Regards,

#1144466#10
Date:
2026-08-17 13:06:48 UTC
From:
To:
Control: tags -1 moreinfo

it seems the watch file was (erroneously?) reverted to v4 in 3.9.4-1,
after getting updated to v5 in the previous upload (3.9.3-1). The
d/changelog file also looks weird, with bits and pieces of the
entries for 3.8.6-1 and 3.9.3-1 mixed up and revision 3.8.6-1 gone
AWOL, despite having been uploaded to the archive. Please restore.

The changelog for the current revision 3.9.4-1 only closes one of the
two open bugs against the xsnow package. Isn't #1120037 (which seems
to deal with the identical issue) also fixed by this update? If so,
please close it in d/changelog as well and/or mark it as a duplicate
on the bug tracker.

And lastly, there's a warning about appstream, see
https://appstream.debian.org/sid/main/issues/xsnow.html


Please remove the moreinfo tag (and CC me) once you have an updated
package ready.

PS: please consider maintaining the package in a git repo on
salsa.debian.org, which would allow yourself and sponsors to benefit
from the Debian-focused CI there, which is very helpful for quality
control and a significant time saver for sponsors too.