Generally, the SRU team prefers that the debian/ packaging be changed as minimally as possible to not introduce regressions and make the diffs easier to read. In other words, don't run wrap-and-sort. However, I think I'm still willing to sponsor this update for you to bionic.
There is one notable packaging change. Could you explain what happened upstream with the signing key? I see that it's mentioned in debian/changelog but I'd like some more details.
Generally, the SRU team prefers that the debian/ packaging be changed as minimally as possible to not introduce regressions and make the diffs easier to read. In other words, don't run wrap-and-sort. However, I think I'm still willing to sponsor this update for you to bionic.
There is one notable packaging change. Could you explain what happened upstream with the signing key? I see that it's mentioned in debian/changelog but I'd like some more details.