Re: [sage-release] Re: New guidelines for spkgs

2014-01-23 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
To be completely clear, two additional questions: On Thursday, January 23, 2014 10:57:29 AM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote: Here is how I have interprested these questions for the packages I am involved in maintining: * package-version.txt, should it only be updated when the tarball changes?

Re: [sage-release] Re: New guidelines for spkgs

2014-01-23 Thread Jean-Pierre Flori
On Thursday, January 23, 2014 12:07:44 PM UTC+1, John Cremona wrote: Yes, I was told that upstream tarballs should not contain any Sage changes, those should be done via patches in the install script. And hence upstream tarballs should not have any .p in them. I did that wrongly when I

Re: [sage-release] Re: New guidelines for spkgs

2014-01-23 Thread Volker Braun
You *should* not change upstream tarballs. Sometimes, we have to. There is no good way to change the upstream tarball without changing the version number. Arguably, thats a feature. Maybe use package-2014123.tar.gz if you have to. There is no point in a spkg-src script if the tarball is not