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?
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
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