Hi! On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:01:26PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, May 10 2018, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > > > On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 03:37:32PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> On Thu, May 10 2018, Debian FTP Masters wrote: > >> > >> > * Refresh maintscript. > >> > >> What does this mean? > > > > * Refresh maintscript. > > * Add README.source to document elpa-yasnippet-snippets.maintscript. > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/emacsen-team/yasnippet-snippets/blob/master/debian/README.source > > > > So it's effectively just an s/0.2-1/0.3-1/. Not sure if that even > > bears mentioning in the changelog... > > The terminology is not standard, so I would have written "Refresh > maintscript (see README.source)." That makes sense, and given the list of standardised terminology I've been building I ought to have been able to infer this! > However: > > > I guess I could expand to README.source to say that the maintscript > > *must* run for each new version (until buster) to handle symlink to > > dir for anyone upgrading from stretch. > > I do not think this maintscript refreshing is needed, given your > description of its purpose. > > When you write > > symlink_to_dir /usr/share/yasnippet-snippets/cider-repl-mode clojure-mode 0.3-1~ yasnippet-snippets > > in d/foo.maintscript you are saying > > "for anyone upgrading from a version of yasnippet-snippets earlier > than 0.3, run some shell script stuff." > > You said that you are trying to handle the case of someone upgrading > from stretch. stretch has a version number earlier than 0.3. So the > maintscript logic will always happen, no matter the version of > yasnippet-snippets to which we are upgrading, when you specify 0.3-1~ in > the maintscript. > > Or am I missing something? You're not missing anything. It seems I followed my notes like a dumb robot, and those notes were deficient because I hadn't qualified my "must update maintscript for each new version" with something like "this is only until you find a sponsor for NEW yasnippet-snippets". Thanks for catching this, I appreciate it :-) Cheers, Nicholas
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