Re: ocaml 3.07 packages.
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:51:49PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:17:34PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:05:54PM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> > > Hi Sven,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:28:17PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> > >
> > > > Ok, i have done a bit more work over lunchtime, and uploaded the new
> > > > packages. They are called ocaml-3.07, ocaml-base-3.07 and so on. Even a
> > > > new ocaml-source-3.07 is included.
> > >
> > > could you please check them into the svn repository at alioth?
> >
> > Erm, i don't know if this makes sense, i thought i would do that once
> > there is a real ocaml 3.07 released, but i must admit that i didn't look
> > all that much into the SVN stuff yet. Also, i suppose it would be better
>
> I think it makes a lot of sense from the moment on when we are supposed
> to look at it, and to send patches back. After all this is what
> version control systems are made for. For instance, if the local
> emacs expert (whoever that is) wants to do some modifications to
> the installation of the caml emacs mode he can do this very
> easily :-)
Ok, let me recapitulate, we have decided to store the .orig.tar.gz
tarball, and put the debian directory in the SVN repository ? If there
is a new upstream release, there is a new .orig.tar.gz ? Why not put the
whole upstream tarball in uncompressed form in SVN then ? It would spare
space in the long time.
Also, how do we make the link between a given .orig.tar.gz and its
corresponding debian directory ? Do we use release tags or something
such in the branches ?
> > to dpatch it before putting it in the repository, but then, maybe i
> > misunderstood something.
>
> Yes, you should dpatchify it. After having done this with some of
> my packages I have to say that this is very rewarding since it
> gives you a much better control about the patches that you want
> to maintain (much better than to do a uupdate and let the diff
> grow). I will now use dpatch for all of my packages.
Yep, it is much more economic when a new version comes out, right. Do
you per chance remember what documentation you used to become familiar
with dpatch ? I suppose i will have to look at the package
documentation, everything will be in it.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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