[Debian-lego-team] Wrong version for ldraw-mklist

[Sylvain Corlay]

Hello,

As I was updating the package for conda, I came across the issue that the
upstream folks actually replace the ldraw parts file in-place, not allowing
to retrieve older versions.

Would there be an interest on your side in maintaining a history of the
source tarballs, as e.g. GitHub releases?

The size of the compressed parts list is ~45M for the latest version so
that should not be a problem.

Sylvain

On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 9:14 AM Johannes Schauer <josch at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Sylvain,
>
> Quoting Sylvain Corlay (2019-09-13 11:02:17)
> > Thanks for maintaining the ldraw debian packages.
> >
> > I was working on the packaging of ldraw-list for Conda, and checked out
> > what you did in Debian for that package.
> >
> > I noticed that the version number on debian is "1802+ds-1" which is the
> > same as ldraw-parts.
> >
> > In fact, ldraw-mklist has different version number from the parts
> library,
> > which is 1.6. Maybe it should be corrected especially as the ldraw folks
> are
> > looking at separating the two source tarballs.
>
> thanks for the heads-up!
>
> Unfortunately, the Version 1.6 is less than the current version of the
> binary
> package 1902+ds-1, so we cannot just change it as otherwise users would be
> stuck at the 1902 version.
>
> My suggestion is that we keep the wrong version in Debian until the split
> actually happens. Once it does, we can also create a new source tarball
> and use
> an epoch to get the versioning right.
>
> Thanks!
>
> cheers, josch
>
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