[Dehs-devel] libxml-sax-perl: New upstream version available

Martín Ferrari martin.ferrari at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 21:06:40 UTC 2008


On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Raphael Geissert <atomo64 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  > I don't think this is correct.Firstly, DEHS is doing the wrong thing
>  >  by removing dsfg and therefore assuming things that uscan don't. Also,
>  >  I see the uversionmangle as correct because when downloading the
>  >  repack script takes care of making it dfsg-free.
>
>  IMHO the repack script should then rename it to +dfsg

>  > Also it makes life
>  >  easier to everybody, because if we used the dversionmangle the
>  >  svn-inject script will use incorrect versions for the
>  >  branches/upstream tags.
>
>  How's that? that seems like a broken behaviour of svn-inject

The two things go together. The repack script renames to the version
informed by uscan, and later svn-inject takes whichever version is in
the filename.

>  > I would really prefer to keep our current
>  >  practise; DEHS can easily not strip dfsg (and understand that some
>  >  maintainers have a clue :)), or strip it also in the upstream version.
>
>  I plan to go the former way after version=4 watch files are accepted
>  on uscan, which will by default strip dfsg and similar Debian
>  repackaging signs via dversionmangle.

Well, I find it silly to misreport problems when packages are
correctly following the uscan rules.

-- 
Martín Ferrari



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