Re: Flexbar source code? (Was: feature request)

[Tony Travis <ajt@minke.ukfsn.org>]

On 18/01/13 18:20, Diane Trout wrote:
> debian in general likes there to be official releases. A lot of the
packaging tools are designed around tracking specific versioned
tarballs. to make releases repeatable there needs to at least be tagged
versions. Though tarballs would be better.

Hi, Diane.

OK, I'll ask the developers to provide an official source tarball.

Bye,

  Tony.

> DianeOn 1/18/13 7:52 Tony Travis wrote:
> On 18/01/13 14:43, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > [...]
> > Could you please contact the authors / those who asked you for the
> > packaging to care for a versioned source code tarball besides their
> > binary download files.  (And yes, we could checkout from SVN but
> > it is better to avoid this to safe us from extra hassle.)
>
> Hi, Andreas.
>
> Can we not just export a snapshot of their SVN version?
>
> For example:
>
> > #!/bin/bash
> > # @(#)SVN  2013-01-18  A.J.Travis
> >
> > #
> > # Checkout current SVN version and export a clean source snapshot
> > #
> > VERSION=$(svn info svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/flexbar/code | awk '/Revision/{print $2}')
> >
> > svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/flexbar/code/trunk flexbar-code
> > svn export svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/flexbar/code/trunk flexbar_src_v2.$VERSION
> > tar jcf flexbar_src_v2.$VERSION.tgz flexbar_src_v2.$VERSION
>
> This is how I got the sources I'm using on our Bio-Linux server in
> Edinburgh.
>
> > This would be a precondition for our packaging work and we should
> > make sure that we will be able to start smoothly without spending
> > time into things like this.
>
> Well, since it's me who wants to package their software for Debian-Med
> and Bio-Linux I think I should make the effort to smooth things along!
>
> > See you in Kiel
>
> Indeed, I'm looking forward to the meeting!
>
> Bye,
>
>     Tony.