Hello Andrew, On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:03, Andrew McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm maintaining and building a series of related packages where I have > input on upstream. I'm wondering: is it accepted practice to package a > stable, intermediate release (with bugfixes) based on an SVN revision, > or is it better to stick with an established point-release?
>From the users point-of-view (what we care about) they need the best version available, so if the "point" release contains bugs that are fixed in the SVN, you either package the "stable" release and the apply the patch from the svn, or simply package the upstream svn revision. Here a doc[1] I wrote to create the get-orig-source target in debian/rules Kindly, Sandro [1] http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi/Svn_get-orig-source -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
