Bug#823470: RFS: sequitur-g2p/0.0.r1668.r3-1 -- Grapheme to Phoneme conversion tool

[Giulio Paci <giuliopaci@gmail.com>]

Hi Christian,

On 05/05/2016 11:08, Christian Kastner wrote:
> On 2016-05-05 03:57, Giulio Paci wrote:
> 
>> I am looking for a sponsor for an updated version of my package "sequitur-g2p"
> 
>>    git clone git://anonscm.debian.org/collab-maint/sequitur-g2p.git
> 
>> A package review is very welcome as well.
> 
> Looks good to me. Nice to see that upstream included so many of your
> patches.

Yeah, I am also very happy about it. Also because they already integrated some suggestions and seems to want to integrate others suggestions as well. :-)

> One thing I'm not quite sure I follow yet is the change in the version
> numbering scheme, both upstream and in the package. This is how it looks
> to me:
> 
>   1. Upstream re-used revision r1668 and added a -r3 suffix
>   -> "r1668" trades a bit of revision semantic for version semantic
> 
>   2. Hence your switch to version semantic in d/changelog
> 
> Is my interpretation correct?

You are right. The change is due to the fact that they relied on svn revisions for releases in the past. Now they have switched to another repository (probably still svn),
and I understand that they are around revision 70 on the new one.

My understanding is that they have private versions of intermediate packages that they did not publish.

I have not talked with upstream about this anyway.

Cheers,
Giulio