On Thursday 01 July 2004 08:55, Jeremy Lainé wrote:
> Some preliminary comments as I have not yet had time to look at the
> package proper:
>
> - the diff.gz is pretty much empty, it just patches the
> debian/changelog. I have not been able to verify if the upstream
> tarballs contain debian/* as the files do not seem to be on the sf.net
> mirrors yet. From the CVS logs you seem to be part of the development
> team, so it might be simpler to have the upstream tarballs drop
> debian/* and just include these files in your diff.gz (which doesn't
> prevent you from keeping debian/* in the same CVS repository!).
Yes, this is a problem, Pierre, please generate a proper .orig.gz tarball,
without debian/ dir at all.
>
> - the package versions look dodgy, as there are 2 dashes
> (1.0-beta4-1). Furthermore you are going to run into problems when the
> final 1.0 version comes out:
Two dashes are perfectly valid according to Policy.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.0-beta4-1 lt 1.0-1 && echo
> true
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
The final version will be labelled 1.0.0-1 of course.
>
> You might consider labeling the beta versions something like
> "0.99+1.0beta4-1".
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.99+1.0beta4-1 lt 1.0-1 &&
> echo true
> true
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
>
> Will try to have a look at the packaging itself later today.
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
Yours,
Peter
