Hi Andreas,
Actually it was decided with the upstream team to modify their published tarballs.
The tarball you've downloaded *is* the *official* tarball.
It was also decided that we would stick to version 1.8.1 for a first step in debian packages and then upgrade to version 1.8.2 (which I shall do very soon). Future upstream releases will integrate these modifications out of the box.
If this really looks too weired (which I would perfectly understand given that we are messing around with existing versions), we could simply publish a new upstream version 1.8.3 which would be ~ 1.8.2 + packaging changes
Hope that was clear...
Thanks,
David
On 31/07/2013 16:14, Andreas Tille wrote:
Actually it was decided with the upstream team to modify their published tarballs.
The tarball you've downloaded *is* the *official* tarball.
It was also decided that we would stick to version 1.8.1 for a first step in debian packages and then upgrade to version 1.8.2 (which I shall do very soon). Future upstream releases will integrate these modifications out of the box.
If this really looks too weired (which I would perfectly understand given that we are messing around with existing versions), we could simply publish a new upstream version 1.8.3 which would be ~ 1.8.2 + packaging changes
Hope that was clear...
Thanks,
David
On 31/07/2013 16:14, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi David, On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 02:36:41PM +0200, David Parsons wrote:It took quite some time but I finally managed to have a modified upstream version online. As requested, the new upstream version includes the source (tex) file for the documentation in addition to the pdf. As for the secondary binaries, they are now installed in /usr/lib/kissplice. The tarball for this version replaced the old one and is available here : https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=4712&release_id=7992 (direct link to tar.gz file : https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/download.php/32827/kissplice-1.8.1.tar.gz)Well, I have downloaded this tarball and confirm that the file doc/user_guide.tex is included as well I can see some changes in some cmake input files. The problem is that you simply created another version of an official upstream tarball which is not the right way to go. Besides the fact that upstream is now at version 1.8.2 we should *not* modify their tarball but rather try the following: 1. Convince upstream to implement the changes (specifically include doc/user_guide.tex in their *official* tarball) 2. If upstream for whatever reason refuses to take over the changes we need, we have to do this as patches and not by simply changing the tarball. Otherwise we are carrying around some undocumented diff to upstream source which is a pain to maintain and just not the right thing to do(tm).I hope everything is okNot yet - but I'm optimistic that we are on the right track given that we have the source for the docs and we can easily move port the changes you did to quilt patches. If you have no idea how to do this just ping and we will help you. Kind regards and thanks for your work on this Andreas.
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