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

Hello, Hugh (and others),

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

Thank you for your reply -- much appreciated!

> 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.

I think I was basing this on Tobias Frost's comment at [1] where he
stated "Please remove all versions from the versioned build depends
that are fulfiled already since oldstable, e.g gettext and
automake."

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1062001#28

I guess I interpreted that to mean all dependencies had to be valid
for Debian old-stable.

I've adjusted the build dependencies to be valid for Debian Sid
(coincidentally also Trixie).  This also includes removing "(>=
2.71)" from autoconf.

> In saying that, I compared your d/control files between trader
> versions.  gettext 0.22 isn't available in oldstable/Bookworm
> anyway.

True, but I also have a backport that can be used for Bookworm (and
also Ubuntu Noble 24.04), in which I apply a patch to allow Gettext
0.21:

  git clone https://git.zap.org.au/git/debian-packages/pkg-trader.git \
    -b master-backports

But this is not relevant for the package I'm trying to get into Sid...

> 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

Good catch!  I accidentally overlooked the changed end date (2026)
when I updated d/copyright.  Fixed.

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

I consolidated the range of years per suggestions from the Copyright
field in [2], but made a typo: 2013 should have been 2012.  Fixed --
thanks!

[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#copyright-field

> 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.

Done.  You can get the updated dsc file by running:

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

(Same URL as before, but updated with the changes listed above).
Also available by running:

  git clone https://git.zap.org.au/git/trader.git -b with-debian

Thank you once again!

Yours truly,

John Zaitseff