[boinc_dev] Boinc 7.3.19 uploaded on debian experimental

[Guo Yixuan]

On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 4:37 AM, costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it <
costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it> wrote:
>
> Hi Guo, considering that 7.3 is out since few months and the freeze
> is 6 months from today I think we can have an upload for jessie
> without any problem.
>
> Moreover Olly is trying to get wx2.8 out of jessie release, so we
> might be forced to switch to the new release, as for the gcc patch.
>
> So in my opinion we should switch as soon as possible to the new
> release, I'm actively monitoring boinc-alpha mail list and I didn't see
> any showstoppers on this new release.
>
> In 6 months however we should have time to fix bugs and I'm sure
> they will release at least 10 new bug-fix builds
>
> (and I think if everything works as in the ubuntu way even after the
> freeze we will be able to upload some more bug fix releases)
>
> BTW I'm planning to upload a 7.2.47-3 package on unstable, I spot
> a problem in the rules file (we were building always the server
> packages because of a typo in rules)
>
> This is preventing the corresponding wheezy-bpo to be built on armhf.
>
> I'll just push a tag, I don't think is worth creating a branch. For me
> we should focus on 7.3 asap.

However, for reference, there're actually branches for older backports.
In addition, I think it's useful to have a branch, instead only a tag.
(Because you can only get it by
  $ git fetch alioth --tags
but not pull/fetch without parameters.)

$ git branch -a |grep remotes/alioth
  remotes/alioth/HEAD -> alioth/master
  remotes/alioth/SZTAKI
  remotes/alioth/SZTAKI_templates
  remotes/alioth/backports/squeeze
  remotes/alioth/debian-folder-HEAD
  remotes/alioth/debian-folder-release
  remotes/alioth/debian/backports/etch
  remotes/alioth/debian/backports/hardy
  remotes/alioth/debian/backports/jaunty
  remotes/alioth/debian/backports/sarge
  remotes/alioth/master
  remotes/alioth/pristine-tar
  remotes/alioth/upstream
  remotes/alioth/wheezy
  remotes/alioth/wheezy-2

The naming is a little confusing here, I suggest to follow
"backports/squeeze" and rename "wheezy-2" branch
to "backports/wheezy". For the older "debian/backports"
branches, we can rename too. (perhaps not too necessary.)

(The "wheezy" branch was created, in hope to upload to 7.x
updates of wheezy, not the backport. Therefore, I suppose
it can only contain some fixes on 7.0.27. I'm not sure if there's
still any motivation for it, though.)

By the way, after I fetched with --tags, hundreds of
client_release_x.y.z tags come up, taking up more than
20MB of space. I wonder if they are really useful. Also,
you may notice that they come from the boinc.git repo,
not the current upstream boinc-v2.git repo, although the
files are the same, the commit hashes are totally different.

Cheers,

Yixuan
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