Bug#1062001: RFS: trader/7.21-1 [RC] -- simple game of interstellar trading

Hi John,

I saw your request on the debian-au mailing list.

On Fri, 29 May 2026 23:35:36 +1000 John Zaitseff wrote:

 > Dear mentors,
 >
 > As per Tobias Frost's request, I am resending my request for
 > sponsorship to this bug #1062001 (originally #1136984).
 > [...]
 > 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.

This update is looking good.

Looking at your changelog, I wondered about: "Adjusted build 
dependencies as required for Debian old-stable."

We are uploading to unstable/Sid, so your version constraints aren't 
necessary.

In saying that, I compared your d/control files between trader versions. 
gettext 0.22 isn't available in oldstable/Bookworm anyway. Unless you 
have something else in mind from the changelog entry?

A copyright check identified some minor discrepancies with the copyright 
years for the following files, compared to what you have listed in 
d/copyright.

  lib/crc-generate-table.c
  lib/crc-sliceby8.h
  lib/crc.c
  lib/crc.h
  lib/wcsdup-impl.h
  lib/wcsdup.c
  lib/wctob.c

  po/eo.*
  po/fi.*
  po/fr.*
  po/sr.*

Can you please check these?

Let me know when you've had a chance to update d/copyright and uploaded. 
I'll then run dpkg-buildpackage, sign and upload for you.

Hugh