On Oct 27, 2015: 17:03, Stuart Henderson wrote:
On 2015/10/27 09:41, J. Scott Heppler wrote:
On Oct 27, 2015: 15:55, Stuart Henderson wrote:
>On 2015/10/25 09:43, J. Scott Heppler wrote:
>>The abook maintainers have provided a new release tarball. Due to
>>some issues at the maintainers end, the release is located here:
>>http://abook.sourceforge.net/devel/abook-0.6.1.tar.gz
>
>That's marked as a devel version rather than a stable release. I wonder
>if they have deliberately not included the generated configure scripts in
>an attempt to reduce the number of non-developers using it?
>
The original SourceForge project was setup by Jaakko Heinonen who
retains the permissions for releases uploads. All of the recent code
commits have been done by Raphaël Droz (does not have permission for
release uploads). Both the Debian Maintainer and I have asked for the
upload and ...devel/ is the best that can be done on their end.
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J. Scott Heppler
I'm not referring so much to the path (although there is that), more the
fact that it's in a section which says "Latest development version"
whereas 0.6.0pre2 (also in the devel/ path) is in a "Latest stable versions"
section. And that one *does* come with a generated configure script.
Here is the email I received from Raphael Doz:
From: Raphaël Droz <[email protected]>
To: Raf Czlonka <[email protected]>
Cc: "J. Scott Heppler" <[email protected]>,
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [Abook-devel] Updating abook port in OpenBSD
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 02:10:52PM +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote:
There's no information about 0.6.1 release on the website[0] and only
after checking the release notes[2] in the repository had I found out
that it has been release over a month ago. Would you mind updating the
page to reflect it, please?
fixed
The tarball uploaded contains the version @a423ced387 instead of the
0.6.1 tags so that notable 303a43 (was already part of debian custom
patches) and 8602a8d are included.
- Let --datafile also work through -f short option
- custom output filter: fixed a bug on 64 bit
Write the list if anything is wrong with the tarball (signing,
compilation, ...)
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The Debian archives for abook contain a configure file so far.
https://sources.debian.net/src/abook/0.6.0%7Epre2-5/
Although this would raise alot of questions regarding a port based on
"0.6.0~pre2-5" when 0.6.1 is available. Per Raphaël, the code base is
incorporated the Debian patches. The other option would be to see if
Debian adds the 0.6.1 code to "unstable". The code would get tested by
their users and if pulled from Debian, a configure file.
The code + patches that presently is in their unstable branch matches
0.6.1 but would be much easier to port
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J. Scott Heppler
