Bug#795704: Fwd: Bug#795704: RFS: mlucas/14.1+dfsg-1 [ITP] -- program to perform Lucas-Lehmer test on a Mersenne number
Hi Gianfranco,
>so can't you ask upstream to integrate the build system and sync with them?
>
>it isn't a Debian specific feature, and should be upstreamed IMHO.
I contacted Ernst (upstream dev) and he agreed to integrate the build
system into his dev branch.
>the problem is that you don't get notified on new releases, and
>moreover the versioning that upstream does is simply "wrong"...
>
>can't you ask them to follow the "always an higher number" versioning?
I think the above should solve the version string problem as well. Or
if it doesn't we can use the old method based on date string. I think
it should work find beacuse the date is monotonic increasing. For
example, the current release is 12.11.2014. Let's assume the next
release is 09.01.2015. We can use some regex replacement to tranform
them into 20141211 and 20150901 respectively and this should works.
>sorry for that, I'm not a native english speaker :)
So do I :P I always think I used too much "I think" and "the"...
The original conversation is forwarded for your reference.
Cheers,
Alex
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: "E. Mayer" <ewmayer@aol.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 23:41:21 -0700
Subject: Re: Bug#795704: RFS: mlucas/14.1+dfsg-1 [ITP] -- program to
perform Lucas-Lehmer test on a Mersenne number
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Hi, Alex:
I am fine with option [1], integrating the build system into my
main-dev. Just need a bit of clarification - what files does the 'build
system' encompass, and where should these reside in the source tree
relative to the .h and .c files?
Also, by 'upstream' is Ginafranco referring to main-dev (i.e. to me), or
something else?
Thanks,
-E
On Aug 21, 2015, at 7:19 PM, Alex Vong wrote:
> Hi Ernst,
>
> I have added the suggested paragraph into the man page and
> introduction. I have "remixed" it a bit or the introduction would
be
> too long. Regarding the merging, feel free to merge anything that
you
> find useful!
>
> Good news! We now have another Debian Developer to review the
package.
> Below is the forwarded message. One of the points he has made is
that
> he thinks the build system should be integrated inside the mlucas
> tarball. I can think of 2 ways.
>
> 1. I will send the "with build system" tarball to you and the
tarball
> will be hosted in the http://www.hogranch.com/mayer/src/C/
directory.
>
> 2. I will host the source in gitlab and the source will be
fetchable
> from it directly.
>
> How do you think about it?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
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