Re: Packaging HTQC for Debian - one test failure
Hi again,
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 03:50:07PM +0800, Xi Yang wrote:
> Now I put the source tarballs in folder "series 1" and "series 2" separately.
Thanks for doing so. Unfortunately due to the nature of how the Debian
sentinel for fetching new upstream sources from sourceforge which can be
only done via a so called redirector, this does not seem to work as
expected. I'm not fully sure but as far as I understood the redirector
it ignores subdirectories and just fetches *names* of tarballs per
project. Even worse it seems to fetch only the latest version it can
get (which is strange to my previous experiences but in the current case
I only see htqc-1.92.3-Source.tar.gz).
So to reach the wanted goal to expose htqc-0.90.8-Source.tar.gz as well
to the sentinel I personally would consider to rename it to
htqc1-0.90.8-Source.tar.gz
since this is a distinct file name. Sorry for this mess but I have not
yet dealt with the request to package several versions of a program to
frequently.
Kind regards
Andreas.
> And please just use the description now.
>
>
> Thanks for a lot!
> Xi Yang
>
>
> At 2015-06-25 14:01:18, "Andreas Tille" <andreas@an3as.eu> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 01:09:33PM +0800, Xi Yang wrote:
> >> Hi:
> >> >From a packagers point of view it makes sense to use the same name as
> >> >the download archive. If you might continue to maintain htqc1 and htqc2
> >> >our automatic sentinel that tracks download locations will have touble
> >> >to realise new versions of htqc (version 1) since the htqc2 download
> >> >tarballs seem to be higher.
> >> Would it help if I put HTQC 1 and 2 in separate directories in sourceforge download site?
> >
> >This would enable the version tracking mechanism to work properly.
> >
> >> >I'll put this on my todo list. In any case you could help me to write a
> >> >proper description that explains the differences to the users. The
> >> >current packaging (under the name htqc - I did not yet updated to htqc2)
> >> >contains the description you see here:
> >> Is it possible to use the same description for HTQC 1 and 2? Because the changes are subtle, and the major change is about programming API and program functionality separation.
> >
> >Sure that is "possible" but descriptions are way to transport a message
> >to your users to give them a helping hand to decide what program to use.
> >In this sense I do not consider identical descriptions as the best idea.
> >
> >Since you did not suggested any change to the description here
> >
> > https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/htqc.git/tree/debian/control
> >
> >I assume you are happy with it, right?
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> > Andreas.
> >
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