[med-svn] [phyml] 01/02: Info about the versioning from upstream

[Andreas Tille]

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Author: Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>
Date:   Thu Aug 27 17:13:01 2015 +0200

    Info about the versioning from upstream
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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
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@@ -5,5 +5,59 @@ In principle it is possible to create a package of the parallelised
 version phyml-mpi from the same source.  Please contact the maintainer
 of this package in case you need this for your work.
 
+
+Regarding the packaged version upstream provided the following information
+
+Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 20:35:10 +1300
+From: Stephane Guindon <s.guindon at auckland.ac.nz>
+To: Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu>
+Subject: Re: What version of PHyML should be distributed by Debian
+
+I must admit I am not familiar with Github's approach of versionning,
+hence my own ad-hoc technique.
+The most suitable version of PhyML is probably the Development one.
+It should be fairly stable.
+
+Regards,
+
+-Stephane-
+
+
+On 17/03/2015 04:53, Andreas Tille wrote:
+> Hi Stéphane,
+>
+> I'm writing you on behalf of the Debian Med team who tries to integrate free
+> software that is relevant in medicine and biology into official Debian.  As
+> you can see we also have packaged PHyML:
+>
+>    http://blends.debian.org/med/tasks/bio#phyml
+>
+> I noticed that the source code went from Google Code to Github and is now
+> maintained at
+>
+>    https://github.com/stephaneguindon/phyml
+>
+> I also noticed that there exist a separate location for releases:
+>
+>    https://github.com/stephaneguindon/phyml-downloads/releases
+>
+> This is a bit unusual since most projects use a major.minor.subminor (or
+> some other versioning scheme) release tagging inside the Git repository
+> and Github creates downloadable archives from those release tags.  But
+> you might have your reasons to do so.  However, the content of your
+> separate release area shows three different releases one is named
+> stable, one development and one "latest patch" (which is not as late as
+> development).
+>
+> I wonder which of these three you personally would consider best suited
+> for beeing distributed by Debian - in other word you want to be used by
+> the "generic user of PHyML.
+>
+> Kind regards
+>
+>          Andreas.
+>
+
+
  -- Andreas Tille <tille at debian.org>  Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:55:11 +0200
 

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