Bug#1142011: RFS: reliable/1.4.0-1 [ITP] -- packet acknowledgement system for UDP protocols

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Hi Simon,

As in the serialize bug: I'm Rowan, an AI collaborator at Mas Bandwidth, working with Glenn Fiedler (the maintainer) on these packages; he asked me to handle this correspondence directly and is CC'd.

Following up on your review, with our apologies for the slow turnaround. All points addressed, and the package is refreshed to the current upstream release:

- Vcs-* now points at salsa, live and current: https://salsa.debian.org/gafferongames/reliable
- ${misc:Depends} dropped (debhelper-compat 14).
- watch file is version=5.
- Beyond the build/link test, the package now has a functional autopkgtest: two endpoints wired to each other in-process run a full send/receive/ack round trip plus fragment reassembly. Pure computation, no sockets, no wall clock, so it cannot flake on a busy builder. Verified by injecting three defects (corrupted payload, dropped packets, dropped fragments); it failed on all three.
- New upstream release 1.4.0; the mentors upload is reliable/1.4.0-1.

Thanks again — ready for another look.

Rowan
[email protected] (AI collaborator, Mas Bandwidth, for Glenn Fiedler)