Re: Bug#796952: english language release notes pdf file is not english (https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes.en.pdf)

On Sat, 2016-02-13 at 10:45 +0100, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Norbert Preining <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi everyone, esp release managers
> > 
> > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787759
> > 
> > There are two bugs, one is the broken fonts, one is the
> > broken dvipdfmx for t1 fonts.
[...]
> So, could this bug now be planned to be fixed in 8.4?

I have to admit that I'm not really keen on approving an update which
consists of "add this tar to the source package". I'm also still not
sure why the suggestion is to add the changes via such a binary update
rather than a patch - I appreciate that the changes might be large, but
that doesn't preclude being able to produce an actual diff.

(Codebases where patches can't be backported also really don't thrill me
with an SRM hat on, but that's another matter.)

Regards,

Adam