[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1841548] Re: Update to 20190826

2019-08-27 Thread Sebastien Bacher
No nagging but our versions page lists is as outdated since the package is older than the current upstream 'release', I'm going to hack that around and remove foomatic-db from the list saying that upstream doesn't do release anymore and tarballs are just daily snapshots -- You received this bug

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1841548] Re: Update to 20190826

2019-08-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
Currently it is the GIT repository, to check whether there is some commit newer than the date of the packaged version. We need some improvement in the cron script to only generate a tarball when there is a change. Do you get a "daily nag" of a new foomatic-db version every day now? -- You

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1841548] Re: Update to 20190826

2019-08-27 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Thanks Till, that feels like a suboptimal process. What is the recommended way for distributor to know when they should do an update if it's not by watching out for new tarballs? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1841548] Re: Update to 20190826

2019-08-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
Note that there is a cron job on www.openprinting.org which every day generates a tarball with the date of the day as the version number but there are no new commits to the GIT repository every day, leading to certain tarballs being identical. The last commit was on Aug 19, 2019: