Hi!
And again some qa efford, which effects some if our packages.
My comments are below.
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From: Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com>
Subject: Proposed MBF: Debian upstream version higher than watch file-reported upstream version
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:41:34 -0600
Hello all,
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In order to bring some more QA on the watch files subject I'd like to start a
permanent MBF on packages whose Debian upstream version (the version string
from Version: without the epoch and the Debian revision) is higher than the
latest upstream version found thanks to their watch file.
Rationale: the watch files are meant to keep track of upstream and if there's
a newer version not being reported by the watch file it means that it needs
to be fixed.
Please note that this situation often occurs when the maintainer didn't make
the watch file strip some +VCSrevNNNNN that was added to the Debian Version.
If nobody objects I'll start filling (in an automated way since there are no
false positives) reports on the 307 source packages which report a Debian
upstream version higher than Upstream version by the watch file.
I'm attaching a list of these packages so I give some time for maintainers to
fix the watch files before this MBF is accepted (!objected) and the automated
MBF script is written.
All the reports will be available at[1].
Any kind of feedback is, as usually, welcomed.
[1]http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?users=atomo64%40gmail.com;tag=dehs-dver-higher-thanup
Kind regards,
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conquest
cultivation
deutex
etw
glest
warzone2100
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conquest:
- fixed in svn on 2007-11-11, not uploaded
- Has some other improvements in packaging, perhaps 8.3-2 should be
uploaded?
cultivation:
- Some kind of snapshot packaged, perhaps that should go to our
versioning, too?
deutex:
- I'm confused by that; we have a version 4.4.902, which isn't listed
on upstreams homepage; and our version number doesn't sound like a
snapshot?
Did the upstream homepage moved / got restructured? Is the
watch-file still correct?
etw:
- svn snapshot packaged -> ignore
glest:
- Broken watchfile, fixed in svn
warzone2100:
- Upstream seems to have restructured the download area, watchfile
needs to be fixed
Yours sincerely,
Alexander
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