Re: Upstream stopped to ship tar.gz file. What to do?

2010-05-25 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Artur R. Czechowski] > BTW, I'm doing also other changes in the package. So, changing the tarball > is not an only purpose of new package release. > > Pro: > To verify if tarball content is the same as upstream ones, one need > to fetch both tarballs, unpack them and verify the checksum of each

Re: Upstream stopped to ship tar.gz file. What to do?

2010-05-25 Thread Russ Allbery
"Artur R. Czechowski" writes: > Upstream of imms stopped to ship tar.gz file and ships only tar.bz2. > However, there is no new upstream release at the moment. The question > is: Shall I prepare new release of Debian package using tar.bz2 > tarball? > There was a short discussion on #debian-dev

Re: Upstream stopped to ship tar.gz file. What to do?

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Artur R. Czechowski wrote: > Upstream of imms stopped to ship tar.gz file and ships only tar.bz2. So they deleted existing tarballs and added new tar.bz2 tarballs? > However, there is no new upstream release at the moment. The question is: > Shall I prepare new

Upstream stopped to ship tar.gz file. What to do?

2010-05-25 Thread Artur R. Czechowski
Hello, Upstream of imms stopped to ship tar.gz file and ships only tar.bz2. However, there is no new upstream release at the moment. The question is: Shall I prepare new release of Debian package using tar.bz2 tarball? There was a short discussion on #debian-devel, but there was no conclusion. Po