[Gtranslator-devel] Re: CVS snapshot tarball + debian package out... also with dbg version!

[Fatih Demir <kabalak gtranslator org>]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:30, Dag Wieers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It would be easier for me if the version of CVS snapshots follow the 
> normal versioning rules. SO instead of
> 
> 	0.99	->	1.0CVS-2003-06-26	->	1.0
> 
> it would be much better to do
> 
> 	0.99	->	0.99.1.20030626		->	1.0
> 
> So that it is obvious for a packaging system which comes after which.


Hi Dag,

  a little story follows below, but the excerpt of your versioning
scheme - we'd name the snapshots something with 0.99XXX? But this would
not express the progress made as the code basis is the 1.0 code basis,
therefore I named the snapshots etc. all 1.0.xxx.

The versioning VERSION.CVSDATE-x is the official Debian versioning way
of such packages, therefore I did the package in this way a bit, but the
interesting and funny case here is:

I renamed the tarball to make it easier for users/RPM packagers (höhö)
to use the tarball so in last consequence I made extra work for myself,
extra work for you and we're all happy or so ;-) Well, would it be ok
with you if I only did snapshot tarballs with gtranslator-1.0.tar.gz as
the package name? Would be easier for me and quicker to do...


> Now I have to rewrite it as follows:
> 
> 	0.99-0	->	1.0-0.cvs20030626	->	1.0-1
> 
> So I'd rather do
> 
> 	0.99-0	->	0.99.1.20030626-0	->	1.0-0
> 
> And not have to internally rewrite version and release which is pretty 
> time-consuming and is useless waste of time ;)


Look above for laughing time ;-)


> It would also be easier if a link to the tarball was inside the mail, so 
> that I don't have to fire up a browser, click, download, move to another 
> destination, copy filename into SPEC file, etc... ;)


Sorry, forgot to do that - normally I'm doing this in the prerelease
mails to the devel list and the packagers so that you can save time like
you described without moving, browsing etc. but this time I forgot it -
mea culpa :-) Will do it in the next mailings.


> Anyway, a new package is available. You have to use ftp if the mirrors 
> aren't updated yet.


Hmm, seeking the package from ftp://dag.wieers.com:/packages/gtranslator
gives me just a list with these files:

drwxr-xr-x    2 546      200          4096 Jun 15 23:37 _buildlogs
-rw-r--r--    3 546      200        525599 May 16 17:41
gtranslator-0.43-0.dag.rh73.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    3 546      200        550885 May 16 17:39
gtranslator-0.43-0.dag.rh90.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    5 546      200       1331081 May 16 17:41
gtranslator-0.43-0.dag.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--    3 546      200        483142 Jun 14 08:00
gtranslator-0.99-0.dag.rh90.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    5 546      200       1151469 Jun 14 08:01
gtranslator-0.99-0.dag.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 546      200        479938 Jun 15 23:37
gtranslator-0.99-0.test.rh90.i386.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 546      200       1151455 Jun 15 23:38
gtranslator-0.99-0.test.src.rpm
-rw-r--r--    1 546      200          1937 Jun 15 23:33 gtranslator.spec


Or is the main server for the packages another one?!