Hi! And again some qa efford, which effects some if our packages. My comments are below. ----- Forwarded message from Raphael Geissert <atomo64@gmail.com> ----- 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, [Please respect the Reply-To header] 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, -- Atomo64 - Raphael Please avoid sending me Word, PowerPoint or Excel attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Content-Description: dd-list output of the affected packages [..] Debian Games Team <pkg-games-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org> conquest cultivation deutex etw glest warzone2100 ----- End forwarded message ----- 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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