On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:02:48 +0100, Frank Terbeck wrote: > Hey there, gregor, Hi Frank! > > Adopted, upgraded and uploaded now. > Thanks for taking care of this package. You're welcome! > However, there's a problem with that. You're using github's > auto-generated tarballs. Those are missing a "VERSION" file. Oops, I hadn't realized this. (I just took the "tag-tarball" because I had a problem with the debian/watch file and tried to be clever instead of fixing it :/) > The thing is, that during script-generation, the current version is > deduced from the state of the git repository (nearest version tag, etc). > Since that state is not a available in tarballs, I'm add that VERSION > file when I'm generating those release tarballs. Ok. > The version information in the manpages will be broken. And the script > will report "VERSION" instead of the actual version (ie "4.0"). That's indeed bad™. > I am always uploading properly generated tarballs to > <https://github.com/ft/arename/downloads> > Maybe you can still pull the current tarball out of incoming, because > I've heard the process of replacing an .orig tarball is a pain, once it > made it to the mirrors. It's already ACCEPTED, so I can either upload 4.0 with a "fake" version (like "4.0+released" or "4.0+VERSION"); or just add the VERSION file as a patch for now. (Speaking of patches: cf. attachment). I'll have a look now. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Joan Baez: Wozu sind Kriege da
Description: typo Origin: vendor Forwarded: no Author: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org> Last-Update: 2012-02-02 --- a/arename.in +++ b/arename.in @@ -883,7 +883,7 @@ =back -Backslashes are special in template strings, becuase they are used to +Backslashes are special in template strings, because they are used to quote characters that bear special meaning (for example, to get a ampersand character, you need to use "B<\&>"). To get an actual backslash in the resulting string, you need to use a backslash, quoted
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