[Pkg-zsh-devel] zsh-beta vs zsh Debian package

[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

TL;DR: This is a heads up for converting zsh-beta and zsh-beta-doc
into transitional packages generated by the zsh source package.

Last chance to object! ;-)

Axel Beckert wrote:
> Clint Adams wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 01:45:49PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > > > For zsh, there are zsh and zsh-beta, but I don't really see the point
> > > > of having both in stable (this may have been interesting in the past,
> > > > but it seems that in the past few years, zsh has evolved slowly enough
> > > > so that only one version would be needed in stable).
> > > 
> > > I agree.
> > 
> > It's a relic of the odd-and-even versioning system that no longer exists.
> > I kept with it mostly out of inertia and there not seeming to be much
> > harm in having a snapshot in stable.  I agree that there is also not
> > much point in having it either.
> > 
> > > Cc'ing the Debian Zsh Packaging Team and Clint for comments as Clint
> > > currently maintains the zsh-beta package.
> > 
> > I don't mind either way, though if there's any reason an upgrade from
> > squeeze would remove zsh-beta, maybe it's better to have a transition
> > package with a symlink to zsh for those few crazy people who use
> > zsh-beta as their login shell.
> 
> We decided back then that it would be too much fuzz to get this
> transition into Wheezy as there were a few differences between the zsh
> and zsh-beta packages which could have made a difference somewhere.
> 
> > Speaking of transitions, did you guys come up with a plan for moving
> > zsh-beta under the aegis of the group?
> 
> In the meanwhile yes. :-)
> 
> My plan is to make zsh-beta and zsh-beta-doc transitional packages
> generated by the zsh source package, i.e. to drop the zsh-beta source
> package as soon as Wheezy is released.
> 
> The branch "abe/no-beta" in our git repository is my proposal for the
> transition. The according control file would look like this:
> 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/zsh.git;a=blob;f=debian/control;hb=abe/no-beta
> 
> Binary and source packages recently generated from this branch can be
> found at those two locations:
> 
> http://jenkins.grml.org/view/Debian/job/zsh-binaries/52/architecture=amd64/
> http://jenkins.grml.org/view/Debian/job/zsh-binaries/52/architecture=i386/
[...] 
> If that plan looks fine for all of us, I'd merge that feature branch
> into the main "debian" branch.

Currently working on that and on merging some other of my feature
branches in git.

I plan to target to Unstable directly. Will though test via Jenkins
before hand. So the upload will probably happen only in a few days.

		Regards, Axel
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