[Pkg-pascal-devel] Migrating FPC & Lazarus VCS to Alioth

[Abou Al Montacir]

Hi,

On Sat, 2013-10-12 at 19:10 +0200, Paul Gevers wrote:
> Hi Abou and the others,
> 
> On 12-10-13 18:37, Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> > I've finally managed to push everything to [1]
> > [1] http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-pascal/lazarus.git
> 
> @Abou, I see you packaged the pre-release of 1.2 and target unstable. Is
> that intentional, or do you want to upload to experimental?
1.1.99 is a pre-release, but is considered by upstream as stable enough
to be packaged and put in sf ftp. I think we can package it to unstable
without any issue.

> While we are at it, I like to discuss the release strategy of fpc and
> lazarus. Until now we have always created packages with
> major.minor.patch-level versions in the name of the package. Wouldn't it
Here I just stick to upstream release versioning. This is not the same
for Lazarus and FPC, please see below
> make a lot more sense to limit this to major.minor? I mean, patch-level
> releases of upstream are meant as bug-fixes, right?
Yes indeed, for Lazarus, the third level digit in version indicates
always a new maintenance release. However the meaning of maintenance
release is customized: a feature that was some time in the trunk and
that the developer thinks it is quite stable can go to fixes branch.

For FPC, the maintenance release always come with new features. The
first digit was changed once because a very low level architecture
change. Then second digit indicates a new major feature like language
changes... Finally a third digit change comes with new RTL components
and bug fixes.
> If you agree, I would propose to upload 1.1.99 with 1.2 in the package
> name, as that would mean going through NEW only once.
No, because I really want to use the same naming convention as upstream.
We will package 1.2 wen it will be available. Also some users report
bugs on upstream bug tracker on our packages, so this helps keeping
coherence.
> @Peter and Torsten, do you intend to subscribe to pkg-pascal-devel, so
> we can drop you CC's? Or don't you want to get these e-mails anyways?
ping!
> Paul
> PS, a completely side question. I like the archive of pkg-pascal-devel
> to be public. Any objections?
I like to have a private mailing list. I think that we should create a
separate one and make this list public.

Cheers,
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