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Re: ported package versioning



On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:58:15AM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> El d?a 20/09/2005 a 02:41 W. Borgert escribio ...
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 01:24:20AM -0500, Rudy Godoy wrote:
> > > Hi, I've almost finished the port to gtk2 of one of my packages[0], my
> > > question is regarding to the package versioning since upstream seems
> > > pretty MIA and I'm unlikely to push it upstream but I'd like to have
> > > this on Debian. So how should I go add a -gtk2, as I'm doing now, to
> > > the version number or put this as another package and replace the
> > > former?
> > 
> > Is there a need to keep the GTK+ 1 version anyway?  I would
> > throw the old stuff away...
> 
> No, I missed to tell that the Debian source package[0] has been
> heavily modified so it differs with upstream's latest release.
> I was thinking just to have the gtk2 port inside diff.gz as another
> Debian source hack, probably I'll go that way.

With upstream MIA but need for them anyway (since there is a large diff.gz),
it may also be an option to fork the code and become upstream yourself.

Bye,
Bas Wijnen

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