Yes, I was told that upstream tarballs should not contain any Sage changes, those should be done via patches in the install script. And hence upstream tarballs should not have any .p in them. I did that wrongly when I redid the database_stein_watkins optional spkgs for git and was told to change it by Jeroen.
Someone like Volker as release manager should probably tell use the real story. John On 23 January 2014 10:46, Jean-Pierre Flori <jpfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:43:36 AM UTC+1, Jean-Pierre Flori wrote: >> >> Yet another question: >> * "upstream" tarballs are stored in the upstream dir without the ".p?" >> part, but are not really upstream, i.e. can be repackaged, stripped, include >> additional stuff. >> So how to update these tarballs when the actual upstream version is the >> same, but the sage specific changes do change. >> For example, see http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/15615#comment:14 where >> the atlas tarball should be updated to include fixes. >> Or http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/14648 where we'd like to completely get >> rid of GMP within ECL tarball. >> > In particular, if the ".p?" part of the package version now only concerns > the "upstream" tarball as the dev doc and John suggest, then it would make > sense to name the upstream tarballs with the ".p?" part. > > If not, that is if the ".p?" part is used to trigger package rebuild (let's > say if a new patch was added), then we should think of another way of > updating "upstream" tarballs. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-release" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
