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Please provide versioned tarball of GENtle



Hi Magnus,

at the page

   http://gentle.magnusmanske.de/

you are providing the source for gentle which as you are mentioning is
provided for Debian.  I now realised that the Debian version is
shamelessly and needlessly behind your upstream version.  The cause for
this is unfortunately that you do not provide the source in a tarball
that contains the version number of the source.  Debian has automatic
tools to detect version changes at the download page of some software
and these are rising a "new upstream version available" alarm.  However,
these tools are relying on the something like a file name so for instance
you should name your source like

    GENtle-1.9.3.tar.gz

or something like this.  If you would follow this suggestion you have
pretty good chances that Debian and Ubuntu will follow your release
cycle reasonably close.

Kind regards and thanks for providing GENtle as free software

      Andreas.

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http://fam-tille.de


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