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Re: ported package versioning



El d�21/09/2005 a 06:17 Bas Wijnen escribio ...

> On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:58:15AM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> > El d?a 20/09/2005 a 02:41 W. Borgert escribio ...
> > 
> > > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:24:20AM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> > > > Hi, I've almost finished the port to gtk2 of one of my packages[0], my
> > > > question is regarding to the package versioning since upstream seems
> > > > pretty MIA and I'm unlikely to push it upstream but I'd like to have
> > > > this on Debian. So how should I go add a -gtk2, as I'm doing now, to
> > > > the version number or put this as another package and replace the
> > > > former?
> > > 
> > > Is there a need to keep the GTK+ 1 version anyway?  I would
> > > throw the old stuff away...
> > 
> > No, I missed to tell that the Debian source package[0] has been
> > heavily modified so it differs with upstream's latest release.
> > I was thinking just to have the gtk2 port inside diff.gz as another
> > Debian source hack, probably I'll go that way.
> 
> With upstream MIA but need for them anyway (since there is a large diff.gz),
> it may also be an option to fork the code and become upstream yourself.
> 

Yes, but I have good news, upstream answered back so we'll have
updates soon.

thanks.
Rudy


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