Bug#841785: Please package the SVN version of pianobooster

2016-11-16 Thread Antonio Ospite
Package: pianobooster
Followup-For: Bug #841785

Dear Maintainer,

first of all, thanks for updating pianobooster.

May I ask where the 0.6.7 upstream version comes from?
Was it picked up arbitrarily just to be greater than 0.6.4?

If so, what about something like "0.6.4.0+svn156-1" for the debian
package instead?

It reflects the last stable upstream release number (modulo the trailing
.0), it is still less than a possible new 0.6.5 upstream release, and
it's still greater than the last debian version in _testing_.

  $ dpkg --compare-versions "0.6.4.0+svn156-1" lt "0.6.5-1" && echo "true"
  $ dpkg --compare-versions "0.6.4.0+svn156-1" gt "0.6.4.0-1" && echo "true"

Just an idea.

Ciao ciao,
   Antonio

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages pianobooster depends on:
ii  libasound21.1.2-1
ii  libc6 2.24-5
ii  libgcc1   1:6.2.0-13
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  12.0.4-2
ii  libqt4-opengl 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqt4-xml4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtcore44:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libqtgui4 4:4.8.7+dfsg-11
ii  libstdc++66.2.0-13

Versions of packages pianobooster recommends:
ii  fluidsynth  1.1.6-3+b1
ii  timidity2.13.2-40.5

Versions of packages pianobooster suggests:
pn  pianobooster-dbg  

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Bug#841785: Please package the SVN version of pianobooster

2016-10-23 Thread Daniel Gimpelevich
Package: pianobooster
Version: 0.6.4.0-1

The latest upstream release of pianobooster is from 2009, and many
problems were addressed upstream after that, before development was
suspended in 2013. Debian keeps tracking the nonexistent new upstream
releases, rather than switching over to the SVN repository. Since SVN
commits are not expected now either, I've staged a package with the
latest snapshot. It would still need to be reworked for current Debian
Policy before it can be accepted. Here is the debdiff, relative to
jessie:

https://launchpad.net/~daniel-gimpelevich/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+files/pianobooster_0.6.4b-2_0.6.7~svn156-0ppa2~trusty.diff.gz