Re: Bug in last release is fixed in CVS - what to do?
Hi.
Marcin Juszkiewicz (debian-lists@hrw.one.pl) wrote:
>I packaged ROX-Filer (http://rox.sf.net/). Some time ago version 2.0.0 was
>released as stable so I changed few things in packaging. Now I have 3
>packages:
...
>What I should do now?
>1. I can just integrate "rox-snapshot" into "rox" so this will be "always"
>up-to-date with bugfixes.
>2. Do some "cvs update" to "rox" to have this one bug fixed.
>3. Create patch from CVS and apply it to ROX-Filer 2.0.0 sources.
>
>Which method is more Debian way?
If the size of the patch is reasonable, a backport of the fix (i.e. something like 3
but with manual review) is the best way to go. If you want to, use README.Debian to
point people to the rox-snapshot package if they need the latest and greatest.
Using the package "rox" for any cvs snapshot has the problem that the any version of
rox you upload *might* be the one user's of the next stable release are stuck with.
Whether or not it is necessary or adviasable to have three versions of the same
thing in Debian seems to be another question.
Cheers
T.
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