Re: New upstream packages?

2005-01-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:15:10PM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: ... First of all, I'll assume you've skimmed over the source as part of your initial packaging. I usually go through the following steps: ... Did I miss anything? Pretty good. I added this and other post to maint-guide. OK to be

Re: New upstream packages?

2005-01-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:48:02AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Like with many other things in Debian, how you do it doesn't matter as long as you don't break things. Things that should be considered include: - Use a -1 Debian revision number for the new upstream release. -

Re: New upstream packages?

2005-01-12 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:31:22PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:45:32PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote: * Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:12:18 18:15 -0800]: snip lots of stuff Did I miss anything? Yeah, the part where you turn this into a poster to be

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:23:28PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote: After checking appropriate docs and asking around and getting different answers, I thought I'd see if there was any consensus on this: How do you deal with new upstream releases? The general answers I'm getting seem to be along

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-22 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:45:32PM -0500, Erinn Clark wrote: * Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:12:18 18:15 -0800]: snip lots of stuff Did I miss anything? Yeah, the part where you turn this into a poster to be hung on my wall. ...and the unified diff for developers-reference. :-)

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-20 Thread Erinn Clark
* Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:12:18 18:15 -0800]: snip lots of stuff Did I miss anything? Yeah, the part where you turn this into a poster to be hung on my wall. Thank you! This is exactly what I wanted. -- off the chain like a rebellious guanine nucleotide signature.asc

New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Erinn Clark
Hi everyone, After checking appropriate docs and asking around and getting different answers, I thought I'd see if there was any consensus on this: How do you deal with new upstream releases? The general answers I'm getting seem to be along the lines of move the debian/ directory to the new

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Erinn Clark
* Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:12:18 18:23 -0500]: snip Of course, just after sending this mail, I was directed to: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-update.en.html#s-newupstream ...which I somehow managed to miss. It's still a bit sparse, so any other tips people have for

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On 20041218T182328-0500, Erinn Clark wrote: How do you deal with new upstream releases? The general answers I'm getting seem to be along the lines of move the debian/ directory to the new release and tweak it til things work. Is this correct? If so (or if not), shouldn't there be something in

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:48:02AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: Like with many other things in Debian, how you do it doesn't matter as long as you don't break things. Things that should be considered include: - Use a -1 Debian revision number for the new upstream release. -

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Erinn Clark wrote: How do you deal with new upstream releases? The general answers I'm getting I'd suggest using a version control system (even a lame one such as CVS), so that you know exactly what changed from one upstream to another, and update the debian/ stuff and any

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Erinn Clark
* Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:12:18 23:53 -0200]: On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Erinn Clark wrote: How do you deal with new upstream releases? The general answers I'm getting I'd suggest using a version control system (even a lame one such as CVS), so that you know exactly

Re: New upstream packages?

2004-12-18 Thread Brian Nelson
Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Erinn Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004:12:18 18:23 -0500]: snip Of course, just after sending this mail, I was directed to: http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-update.en.html#s-newupstream ...which I somehow managed to miss. It's still a bit