On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:14:03 +0200 Tormod Volden <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:37 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Please CC me if somebody answers, thank you. >> >> I filed a bug to update edid-decode in debian. See >> https://bugs.debian.org/839152 >> >> The answer I was given by the maintainer is as follows - >> >> <andrew>I'm not sure putting git-generated ChangeLog is in any way >> beneficial to the users. I think it's better to talk to upstream to >> convince them to >> do proper releases and release notes/changelogs. </andrew> > >edid-decode is a developer tool that works standalone without >dependencies (or reverse ones) and wouldn't benefit much from proper >releases. As you can see in the changelog, changes are very >incremental and there are likely no reason to keep "users" at a >certain version instead of just using the latest code. Releases could >nudge downstream packagers to update their packages though... > >The Debian maintainer should just make a snapshot release from time to >time, and whenever the code hasn't been worked on for a while, is >probably a good time to pick. Or, that'd be the right time for devs to create a git tag named the incremented version at that working state. checkout in-between tags, and you're on your own. > >The git log is in the case of edid-decode a pretty good changelog. I >don't think anybody cares enough to spend time on making a shorter >version. > >I don't know why the Debian maintainer refuses to add a git log, which >would be better than nothing. Maybe he is overloaded (60+ packages) >and focuses on more critical packages. Luckily, it is easy to >contribute to Debian. If you attach a debdiff or patch to your bug >report, he would be pretty stubborn to not accept it. > >Of course, I am sure anyone is welcome to prepare an x.org edid-decode >release too :) > >> >> From the nature of the git page, it's not easy to have any idea as to >> when there is possibility of having a versioning and a proper release >> as such. > >I think edid-decode never had a version or release and there is no >plan for it, although I can't speak for the developers. > >Regards, >Tormod -- Regards, Christopher Barry _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
