Warren Turkal wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:47, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: >> One minor point is that the orig.tar.gz of a source package that was >> modified for Debian (even just to repack it) should contain a directory >> named >> netcdf-3.6.2.orig >> rather than >> netcdf-3.6.2 > I created README.Debian-source with the following text: > > The orig.tar.gz has changed from the upstream source. To recreate the > orig.tar.gz from the upstream source, follow these steps. [snip] Looks fine. > I will upload a 1~pre8 for you to check out first. In fact, it's already > posted if you wanna look at it. I have also posted the new orig.tar.gz. I've scanned those and they also seem good. Do you plan to post a final 3.6.2-1 version for me to build and upload? Or shall I just bump the version number in the 3.6.2-1~pre8 changelog to 3.6.2-1, then build and upload that? >> During the build, there are a lot of error messages of the form >> "warning: enumeration value ‘NC_NAT’ not handled in switch". Is this >> something that could be a problem? Maybe upstream would best know the >> answer to this... > > First of all, they are warnings. Upstream says the errors were also in 3.6.1 > or before. They don't seem to cause any functional problems. I have > scientists using 3.6.2 compiled and installed into /usr/local as we speak. OK, it sounds safe then. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
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