Hi! On Feb 6, 2008 4:23 PM, Morten Kjeldgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/02/2008, at 16.37, Nelson A. de Oliveira wrote: > > Agreed? :-) > > Heh, not quite actually... :-)
That's good ;-) > The way I've done it is apply upstreams patches via the dpatch system > to the old tarball. When the package version is named 3.0+p1, the > somewhat confusing thing is that upstreams tarball gets the name > mustang_3.0+p1.orig.tar.gz even though it does not contain the patch. You need to use 3.0+p1 only if you use the new tarball. With the old one the version will be 3.0 only. > This snag is avoided when the patch level "p1" is in the release > string, and it will make it clear that the patch was added at the > packaging level. Therefore, I think the logical naming scheme would be: > > 1) old tarball + upstream's patches in debian/patches --> > mustang_3.0-1+p1 --> tarball = mustang_3.0.orig.tar.gz I think that not. You will need to keep the +p1 for every update that you do in your package. For example, the next revision will be 3.0-2+p1, 3.0-3+p1, etc. binNMUs will be 3.0-1+p1+b1 (really strange, uh?) security update for older releases will be 3.0-1lenny1+p1 or 3.0-1+p1lenny1? Ubuntu syncs: 3.0-1ubuntu1+p1 or 3.0-1+p1ubuntu1? NMUs: 3.0-1.1+p1 or 3.0-1+p1.1? I see that using +p1 on the revision version will only complicate things :-) (somebody correct me if I am wrong, please). Using the old tarball + patch via dpatch will be 3.0-1 only, without the need to say on the version string that we are applying a patch. If you want to notify the users that this version is updated, you can use debian/changelog and/or README.Debian. It is like emboss, for example. See: http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emboss/news/20080128T113206Z.html An official patch is included, only incrementing the revision number of the package and without adding any kind of suffixes. > 2) new tarball including upstream's patches to 3.0 --> > mustang_3.0+p1-1 --> tarball = mustang_3.0+p1.orig.tar.gz This one is right. > So, while that is my reasoning, I will commit to whatever scheme this > list recommends :-) I keep my "old tarball + patch = 3.0-1, new tarball = 3.0+p1-1" :-) But lets see what the other members of the list have to say, right? Best regards, Nelson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
