On 23 January 2014 12:56, Volker Braun <[email protected]> wrote:
> You *should* not change upstream tarballs. Sometimes, we have to. There is
> no good way to change the upstream tarball without changing the version
> number. Arguably, thats a feature. Maybe use package-2014123.tar.gz if you
> have to.
>
> There is no point in a spkg-src script if the tarball is not modified. Did
> you forget how to download files? ;-)
>
> Right now, only the package-version.txt timestamp is used in the makefile
> dependency calculation. So you have to add a .p<X> to the version number
> there (but not in the tarball) to trigger a rebuild if necessary.  (*)
>
> Feel free to strip out the old changelog from the SPKG.txt file, but please
> no autogenerated patches that do it globally.
>
> I'm against boilerplate copy-pasta in spkg-check/spkg-install files to check
> that we are really being called from Sage.  (*)

"boilerplate copy-pasta" -- I want some now!

John

>
>
> (*) these really ought to be addressed in future changes to the build
> system.
>
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