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

Hi Adam,

> 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

Understandable.

> 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.

I can do a patch, that is the easiest part of course, but it will
be huge.

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

They can, if someone could identify the single patch and try to get
it working in the old code base - which has been severly rewritten
in hthe meantime.

I can try for that, but I have *no* idea when how and if it works out.

All the best

Norbert

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