Re: Advice needed on changing upstream source.
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> I have a problem. The Webmin distribution consists of various modules.
> It has periodic numbered releases. It also has unnumbered updates of
> individual modules between releases for bug fixes etc. What do I do?
>
> 1. Don't package the updates
>
> 2. add updates to both the debianized source and orig.tar.gz. reupload
> the orig.tar.gz with -sa
>
> 3. add updates to the debianized source but not the orig.tar.gz
>
> 4. Treat each module as an individual upstream source and update each one
> independently.
>
> 5. Invent my own versioning scheme
How are the module updates distributed? If they are in a single tarball, I
would create two source packages, webmin and webmin-modules, and give the
latter a date-oriented versioning scheme. Better yet, get upstream to version
them. Releases should have versions, especially in the case of
security-sensitive software.
If the modules are all distributed individually, you might want to merge them
into a single source package, but unless there are an excessive number of them,
I would avoid this, as it would keep users from verifying the checksums of the
.orig.tar.gz (assuming they are available).
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- mdz
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