From 64cb5e5ec672cd357bc66a8480465e531db25f52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "W. Trevor King" Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:48:07 -0500 Subject: Fixed bug 529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c (howto version BE). Also appended some of the recent discussion about releases to the comment list. --- .../1847f1f8-525a-42c4-ae2b-e9377459d2a6/body | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 .be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/1847f1f8-525a-42c4-ae2b-e9377459d2a6/body (limited to '.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/1847f1f8-525a-42c4-ae2b-e9377459d2a6/body') diff --git a/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/1847f1f8-525a-42c4-ae2b-e9377459d2a6/body b/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/1847f1f8-525a-42c4-ae2b-e9377459d2a6/body new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c890f3 --- /dev/null +++ b/.be/bugs/529c290e-b1cf-4800-be7e-68f1ecb9565c/comments/1847f1f8-525a-42c4-ae2b-e9377459d2a6/body @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +"W. Trevor King" writes: + +> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:41:26PM -0300, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: +> > I'm using the latest version available on Debian +> > (0.0.193+bzr.r217-2). I should ask for an updated package... +> +[…] + +> There is also an outstanding Debian bug for updating the Debian package +> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=544515 +> so there may be a more current package on the way, but I don't know +> about timeframes for that sort of thing. + +It would make it much easier on the Debian package maintainer if the +Bugs Everywhere project would make conventional tarball releases, with +conventional version numbers, with a changelog describing what has +changed between versions. + +Trying to maintain a package of a project that is only made available by +undifferentiated VCS revision numbers is a lot more effort, and so +doesn't happen very often. + +-- + \ “Roll dice!” “Why?” “Shut up! I don't need your fucking | + `\ *input*, I need you to roll dice!” —Luke Crane, demonstrating | +_o__) his refined approach to play testing, 2009 | +Ben Finney -- cgit