Peter Bigot scrisse:

> I'm surprised the binutils patches don't work since I wouldn't expect
> any upstream changes to affect the msp430 files, but I can only
> provide patches against the upstream release that's part of the
> initial LTS release. 

On top of that, Debian source also carries additional patches for other
supported arches. This all make patching failing on common files
(eg. Makefile.am).
This currently happens for both binutils and gcc, and I can't do much
for it (except trying a cluebat on the fellow maintainer). 
This is very unfortunate, but should be almost transparent to you and
I'm fine with patches plus your handling of git branches :)

> If you apply them against some other version, I
> hope the version numbers you use make it clear that what you have
> isn't a supported release from the perspective of mspgcc.

As I am forced to live with it, I'm still looking for the straighter
way.
The binutils I'm currently uploading, announces itself as:

lucab@galatea:~$ msp430-objdump -v
GNU objdump (GNU Binutils patched msp20110716) 2.21.53.20110805
[...]

As the banner says, this is upstream 20110805 snapshot with mspgcc
20110716 LTS patches. PKGVERSION (everything between parenthesis) may
be customized at configure time, your pick :) 
Package file is currently numbered 2.21~msp20110716-1, as it
may be automatically built against newer post-2.21 snapshots.
I avoided putting lts labels anywhere, as it may differ from what you
expect (while in fact being almost identical).
Is it clear enough? Should I change anything to make it more explicit?
Something similar will be applied to GCC.

> The overhead of preparing and pushing releases is too much to
> add yet another level of version numbering.

Fine. I'll keep a patch level numbering somewhere internally just to
distinguish them in the archive. 

Cheers, Luca

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