Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-12 Thread Jean-Michel Vourgère
On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:01:46 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Another round of nitpicking: On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 10:01:46AM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tzafrir Cohen Answering myself: here's a simpler trick: Subversion revisions: 0~svnrevision Switching to git: 0.0~gitdate Why do you want to put the git/svn before the revision information? 0~20140209+svn1234 0~20140209+git$sha1 If you need more than one a day, you can do

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream version of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2014-02-08 10:01, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen (2014-02-08 10:01:46) On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-08 Thread Michael Shuler
On 02/08/2014 05:55 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 2014-02-08 10:01, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version

Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, I am interested in packaging Skia ( https://code.google.com/p/skia/ ), the 2D library used in Chromium, Firefox and others. I need it because a package I maintain (witty) is replacing GraphicsMagick with Skia. I went to Skia's download page and... found there is none: Skia does not make

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Michael Shuler
On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream version of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever release) to supersede your packaged version. It should also allow

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Michael Shuler mich...@pbandjelly.orgwrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream version of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever release) to supersede your packaged

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2014-02-07 17:25, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? You usually make up your own upstream version number, either revision-based or date-based or both. Just ensure you use a version that sorts before any later upstream release.

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Michael Shuler (2014-02-07 17:41:56) On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream version of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever release) to supersede

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Andreas Beckmann a...@debian.org wrote: If your upstream is git, you don't have monotonically increasing revision numbers, but (unordered) commit hashes. I usually use something based on 'git describe' as that gives you a number of commits since a reference

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Eugene Zhukov
My apologies if something isn't right with this email, I'm writing from my phone. On 7.2.2014, at 18.25, Pau Garcia i Quiles pgqui...@elpauer.org wrote: Hello, I am interested in packaging Skia ( https://code.google.com/p/skia/ ), the 2D library used in Chromium, Firefox and others. I

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Pau Garcia i Quiles (2014-02-07 17:51:47) I have also noticed Firefox includes Skia in its source package, although it may be justified because they heavily patch Skia. Icedove (Thunderbird) and XULRunner also include their own version of Skia. Thanks for noticing! Please report

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: I am interested in packaging Skia ( https://code.google.com/p/skia/ ), the 2D library used in Chromium, Firefox and others. I need it because a package I maintain (witty) is replacing GraphicsMagick with Skia. I went to Skia's download page and... found there is none: