Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Blake Barnett
On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:46 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:43:02 -0700 Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Oct 23, 2006, at 4:04 PM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 14:59:36 +0200 Jakob Haufe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Jennings
On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 10:13:21 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: Obviously these packages wouldn't get into Debian this way. Once the version changes to 0.17, it won't matter anymore. Are you sure? Epoch in RPM supercedes version, and I was under the impression that it worked similarly

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Koen Kooi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Jennings schreef: On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 10:13:21 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: Obviously these packages wouldn't get into Debian this way. Once the version changes to 0.17, it won't matter anymore. Are you sure? Epoch in

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Blake Barnett
On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 10:13:21 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: Obviously these packages wouldn't get into Debian this way. Once the version changes to 0.17, it won't matter anymore. Are you sure? Epoch in RPM supercedes

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Jennings
On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 10:48:16 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: If it does, it's not documented in the policy manual. Seems to me that the only valid purpose for an Epoch would be to act as a superversion in case of dramatic versioning convention changes (such as MMDD - X.Y.Z) and

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Blake Barnett
On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 10:48:16 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: And even still, it shouldn't matter. If people are going to change their source for the packages (especially going to the main repository), they need to remove all

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Michael Jennings
On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 12:09:11 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: We did it because it was a support nightmare to explain why the main repository packages always took precedence, even though their version was lower. It works as expected for users this way. No, using an epoch version

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Blake Barnett
On Oct 24, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 12:09:11 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: We did it because it was a support nightmare to explain why the main repository packages always took precedence, even though their version was lower. It works as

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread Jakob Haufe
Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: oh = hoorray for packaging stupidity. at no point in e's past release history have we actually broken versions and not incremented a version numerically from the previous one - there just is no need to use debian's epoch. fan-bloody-tastic. :(

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:09:11 -0700 Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Oct 24, 2006, at 11:48 AM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 10:48:16 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: And even still, it shouldn't matter. If people are going to change their source

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-24 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:48:16 -0700 Blake Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: On Oct 24, 2006, at 10:35 AM, Michael Jennings wrote: On Tuesday, 24 October 2006, at 10:13:21 (-0700), Blake Barnett wrote: Obviously these packages wouldn't get into Debian this way. Once the version

Re: [E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-20 Thread The Rasterman
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:33:01 +0200 Jakob Haufe [EMAIL PROTECTED] babbled: Hi all! I'm building debian packages of e17 for my private use for a couple of months now. During that, I had to change some of the autofoo and debian/* files to make the packages build correctly. I asked on

[E-devel] Larger diff against CVS concernig autofoo and debian/*

2006-10-17 Thread Jakob Haufe
Hi all! I'm building debian packages of e17 for my private use for a couple of months now. During that, I had to change some of the autofoo and debian/* files to make the packages build correctly. I asked on #edevelop where to send these diffs, Lutin told me to put them here. So here they are.