Le 28/09/2011 02:50, Michael Moorman a écrit : > Going to bump this bug. I've been needing to maintain a PPA version of > Unison 2.40 to keep track with the version of my fileserver. Due to > unison's annoying inability to sync between different minor revisions, I > repackaged the latest Ubuntu revision of this package for the new > upstream, but getting the new version in Debian would be much nicer. > > I can revise my package to target Debian if needed.
Please do, but please read the following. Unison should be able to sync between minor revisions (third digit), but not between major versions. Because of this incompatibility, and to keep the ability to sync between several servers with various versions of Debian, the previous maintainer maintained two versions, the last one in Debian stable (currently unison2.27.57) and the last upstream one (currently unison). Currently, upgrading unison needs care because of this. Besides, all SVN revisions have a version number, and it might not be clear from the version number whether it is stable or just a beta. My own plan was to turn the current package into a unison-2.32 package (similar to unison2.27.57) and a unison-defaults (native, similar to e.g. python-defaults) meta-package, then fork a unison-2.40 package from unison-2.32. The goal is the symmetric treatment between all versions, so we can keep more in parallel with a low maintenance burden. It should then be easier to add a new version, and it would be possible to make it possible to synchronize sid with any supported version of Debian and Ubuntu without a heavy maintenance burden in the long term. This is not high on my TODO-list, though, since the currently version works (and I use it everyday) and I don't feel compelled to have a new version. We are severely lacking manpower in the OCaml team, and any help would be welcome. It would be more than nice if you could contribute an updated unison packages, or, better, to officially join the team and maintain them in the long term. Cheers, -- Stéphane -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
