kiwix upstream tarball confusion

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Kelson, hi Renauld,

Vasudev made me aware of a new 0.9~rc1 release of kiwix and that there  
are multiple tarballs around with the same version number.

I downloaded three src tarballs of 0.9~rc1 (resp. 0.9-r1):

1. http://download.kiwix.org/src/kiwix-0.9~rc1-debian.tar.gz
2. http://download.kiwix.org/src/kiwix-0.9-rc1-src.tar.gz
3. ... and kiwix-0.9-rc1-src.tar.gz found here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kiwix/files/0.9_rc1/

I downloaded all three of them and the one with -debian in its file  
name seems to be different:

13c9567f331e487679ce0cabc26ae9fd  kiwix-0.9~rc1-debian.tar.gz
49ab5738b963939d94ecbb6b19b659d8  kiwix-0.9-rc1-src-sf.tar.gz
49ab5738b963939d94ecbb6b19b659d8  kiwix-0.9-rc1-src.tar.gz

So my main question is: what is the difference between  
kiwix-0.9~rc1-debian.tar.gz and kiwix-0.9-rc1-src.tar.gz and what is  
your motivation to release two tarballs of the same version name.

And... Unfortunately, I guess, this is not how things work on the  
Debian side. For a Debian package maintainer, there can only be one  
tarball named 0.9-/~rc1. (We in Debian prefer the "~" as a delimiter  
between the upcoming version and ~rcX, ~betaY, ~alphaZ, but that is  
not crucial here.)

So my request is, please help me clarifying this tarball confusion  
issue. For Debian packaging we rely on you releasing one tarball with  
one version. Another tarball has to be named with another version.

We cannot package any new upstream releases for Debian until we have  
some clarity on the upstream release workflow.

Greetings to all!!!

Mike

PS: and what a pity that Ubuntu refuses to build libxul-based  
applications at the moment:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kiwix/+bug/1034654

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