On 22 Aug 2001 08:56:37 -0400, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> On 21 Aug 2001, Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
> > There is another problem with the libgii-0.8 and libggi-2.0
> > distributions - the source tar's were named
> > <libname>-<version>.src.tar.<compression>. The GNU standard for source
> > distribution is <libname>-<version>.tar.<compression>. Having the
> > ".src" inserted into the file name broke the rpm spec file which assumed
> > standard naming conventions.
>
> Hmm -- well, I think as long as we start naming the compiled binary
> trees with their architecture, we won't have any collisions, so it would
> be fine to get rid of the .src.
>
> Would it be hard for us to switch to a major/minor/micro version
> number scheme. Other folks seem to want to release a 2.0.1 with the
> make distcheck stuff fixed and some cleaning in the docs. FOr
> this release, I would say that fbdev-directfb should be disabled by
> default.
<major>.<minor>.<micro> numbers are fine.
> In addition as far as debian packages go, our maintainer told me
> it's best to avoid things like 2.0-final, as they are greater than
> 2.0 by debian standards. So, from now on if we stick with numerics,
> that would probably be best.
Similar problems for RPM.
> > PS. Who is the release manager that builds the distribution tars,
> > presents them to the group, decides when they are approved, and then
> > places them on the FTP site? Christoph?
>
> Either Christoph or Eric have access to the FTP portion of SourceForge.
> CHristoph only has this access during the weekends. Both are on IRC
> at the current moment so I'll talk it over a bit.
>
> --
> Brian
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Thayne Harbaugh
