Bug#919610: insserv.8: Corrections of formatting and macro use in the manual

Dmitry Bogatov KAction at debian.org
Mon Jan 21 20:24:03 GMT 2019


[2019-01-20 17:31] Bjarni Ingi Gislason <bjarniig at rhi.hi.is>
> > > Input file is insserv.8
> > >[...]
> > 
> > Dear submitter, that you for your contribution.  Unfortunately, your
> > patch can not be used easily, since it alters not source (insserv.8.in),
> > but preprocessed version.
> > 
> > Would you be so kind to rebase your patch on insserv.8.in?
> > Alternatively, we could wait for upstream maintainer to release new
> > version with your changes incorporated, but this way your changes may
> > miss Buster.
>
> Thanks for the tip.  I did not check the homepage.

That is better. Thank you. Uploaded.

But it would be even better to make patch aganist source package, not
upstream release, since your patch slightly conflicted with other patch.
I dealt with it, but following would make things even more smooth:

	$ dgit clone <packagename>
	$ <edit-compile-debug>
	$ git commit
	$ git send-patch ...
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