Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release

2017-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 10/5/2017 10:23 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > Sometimes more complicated situations come up. We have one with lftp right > > now: > > > > prev: 4.7.7-1 > > curr: 4.8.0-1 > > test: 4.7.8-1 > > > > This happened because 4.8.0-1 turns out to be broken, and later versions > > won't > > build

Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release

2017-10-05 Thread cyg Simple
On 10/5/2017 2:16 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: > Andrew Schulman writes: >> This happened because 4.8.0-1 turns out to be broken, and later versions >> won't >> build in Cygwin yet. So I had to promote 4.7.8-1 to test. Assuming it's okay, >> shortly I want to promote it to current and dump 4.8.0-1,

Re: [ITA] gnuplot-5.2.0

2017-10-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: > Something cygport did for whatever reason, I'll take another look once I > move it to my proper package maintenance directory and change it to > release. The reason is I patched cygport to do that some time back, probably when unpacking a source archive clobbered my actual

Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release

2017-10-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Andrew Schulman writes: > This happened because 4.8.0-1 turns out to be broken, and later versions won't > build in Cygwin yet. So I had to promote 4.7.8-1 to test. Assuming it's okay, > shortly I want to promote it to current and dump 4.8.0-1, leaving > > prev: 4.7.7-1 > curr: 4.7.8-1 Again,

Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release

2017-10-05 Thread Achim Gratz
Jon Turney writes: > I'm not keen on the idea of including this transient information into > the cygport, and thus baking it into the source package. Fair enough. If that's the only thing that bothers you, this information could easily live in some extra file that doesn't get packaged. Deal? >

Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release

2017-10-05 Thread Ken Brown
On 10/5/2017 10:23 AM, Andrew Schulman wrote: Sometimes more complicated situations come up. We have one with lftp right now: prev: 4.7.7-1 curr: 4.8.0-1 test: 4.7.8-1 This happened because 4.8.0-1 turns out to be broken, and later versions won't build in Cygwin yet. So I had to promote

Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release

2017-10-05 Thread Andrew Schulman
> On 03/10/2017 21:01, Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> This patch (originally by Achim Gratz) adds a mechanism for generating > >> packages marked as 'test' as described in [1]. > >> > >> I'm not committed to any of the details, but I would like to get > >> something with this functionality in, so

Re: [PATCH cygport] Add a command to make a test release

2017-10-05 Thread Jon Turney
On 03/10/2017 21:01, Andrew Schulman wrote: This patch (originally by Achim Gratz) adds a mechanism for generating packages marked as 'test' as described in [1]. I'm not committed to any of the details, but I would like to get something with this functionality in, so tell me how you'd like it