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Re: Please update fis-gtm package



Hi Amul,

ping.  Will you be able to check my latest commits and finalise the
fis-gtm package.  We should upload soonish since the freeze is
approaching.

Kind regards

      Andreas.

On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 03:32:32PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Amul,
> 
> may be you missed my last mail - just adding you in CC to avoid this.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
>       Andreas.
> 
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 08:25:55AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
> > Hi Amul,
> > 
> > On Sat, Dec 01, 2018 at 11:56:01AM -0500, Amul Shah wrote:
> > > 
> > > It’s been a busy few months and I keep telling myself that I’ll do the fis-gtm package next week. We released V6.3-006 at the end of last month, but the corporate security goon squad decided to block SourceForge.net and we’re still awaiting for permission to access it from corporate resources.
> > 
> > If there is another URL where your releases are available for download
> > we could point the watch file to this alternative place.
> > 
> > As a personal note:  May be its time to leave SourceForge as hosting
> > platform.  There are more modern and way less advertising noise ones
> > these days.
> >  
> > > I tried searching (both in my email and via a mailing list search) for the package name discussion, but couldn’t find it. Could you resend it or remind me what the question is?
> > 
> > The question is:  The real binary package is renamed to always reflect
> > even the latest minor version change.  This always requires the fis-gtm
> > package to pass Debian new queue.  I was wondering with it might be
> > sufficient to say for instance have a package named
> > 
> >    Package: fis-gtm-6.3
> > 
> > instead of even adding -004, -006, etc. to the package name.  I have no
> > idea about the practival implications since I'm not a fis-gtm user but
> > it might be worth discussing in your team whether the Debian packages
> > are really used in all minor version changes.
> > 
> > Kind regards
> > 
> >        Andreas.
> > 
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