RFS: PennMUSH - #3

2004-03-18 Thread Ervin Hearn III
Hi all, I'd like to make a request for a sponsor for my PennMUSH package. I've been working with Joel Baker for a few months now, but he has informed me that he won't be able to continue doing so for the time being. The package is in pretty good shape, thanks to Joel's input. If anyone is interes

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the next > release will be 0.70. The obvious problem is: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > That won't

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said: > I think you are misparsing Colin. The pool managing scripts will > definitely complain if you upload a new foish-bar_0.70.orig.tar.gz. > You /cannot/ replace a foish-bar_0.70.orig.tar.gz in the archive > without changing the name. That was my fe

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Humberto Massa said: > I think he meant > > 0.70-rc1 when RC, then 0.70-rel1 when RELEASE > > $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc1 lt 0.70-rel1 && echo yes > yes Ah, sorry about that. Parse error. That would work, and has the advantage that it's less ugly than the oth

RFS: PennMUSH - #3

2004-03-18 Thread Ervin Hearn III
Hi all, I'd like to make a request for a sponsor for my PennMUSH package. I've been working with Joel Baker for a few months now, but he has informed me that he won't be able to continue doing so for the time being. The package is in pretty good shape, thanks to Joel's input. If anyone is interes

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Andreas Metzler said: > I think you are misparsing Colin. The pool managing scripts will > definitely complain if you upload a new foish-bar_0.70.orig.tar.gz. > You /cannot/ replace a foish-bar_0.70.orig.tar.gz in the archive > without changing the name. That was my fe

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Humberto Massa said: > I think he meant > > 0.70-rc1 when RC, then 0.70-rel1 when RELEASE > > $ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rc1 lt 0.70-rel1 && echo yes > yes Ah, sorry about that. Parse error. That would work, and has the advantage that it's less ugly than the oth

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-18 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > > There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released. > > > > In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what > > you suggest) is a common workaround. It's n

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-18 Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > > There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released. > > > > In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what > > you suggest) is a common workaround. It's n

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Humberto Massa
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Michael Koch said: You could use 0.70-release-1 (or 0.70-rel1). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-release-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rel1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:17:52PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Michael Koch said: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > > > am apparentl

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Adam Kessel
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:17:52PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > You could use 0.70-release-1 (or 0.70-rel1). > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-release-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo > yes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compa

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released. > > In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what > you suggest) is a common workaround. It's not too bad to change the > tarball name. OK, if it's not a big

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Koch said: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > > am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release > > of one of

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release > of one of my packages, and I am having some trouble ensuring > upgradeability. > > Th

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release > of one of my packages, and I am having some trouble ensuring > upgrade

Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release of one of my packages, and I am having some trouble ensuring upgradeability. The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the n

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Humberto Massa
Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Michael Koch said: You could use 0.70-release-1 (or 0.70-rel1). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-release-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-rel1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Sam

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:17:52PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Michael Koch said: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > > Hello all, > > > > > > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > > > am apparentl

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Adam Kessel
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 01:17:52PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > You could use 0.70-release-1 (or 0.70-rel1). > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-versions 0.70-release-1 lt 0.70-1 && echo yes > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --compare-

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Colin Watson said: > There's ~, but you can't use that until sarge has been released. > > In the absence of that, something like 0.69-really-0.70-rc-1 (or what > you suggest) is a common workaround. It's not too bad to change the > tarball name. OK, if it's not a big

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Michael Koch said: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > > am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release > > of one of

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release > of one of my packages, and I am having some trouble ensuring > upgradeability. > > Th

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-18 Thread Everton da Silva Marques
--- Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Text such as the following would be useful in your > licencing statements: > > "Additional to those permissions granted by the GNU > Public License, > permission is given to distribute copies of this > work linked to software > licenced under the ter

Re: Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Michael Koch
On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 12:55:33PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > Hello all, > > This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I > am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release > of one of my packages, and I am having some trouble ensuring > upgrade

Versioning question

2004-03-18 Thread Stephen Gran
Hello all, This may be a simple thing that has been solved many times before, but I am apparently being stupid about it. I am packaging the newest release of one of my packages, and I am having some trouble ensuring upgradeability. The version for this release is 0.70-rc, and upstream says the n

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-18 Thread Everton da Silva Marques
--- Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Text such as the following would be useful in your > licencing statements: > > "Additional to those permissions granted by the GNU > Public License, > permission is given to distribute copies of this > work linked to software > licenced under the ter

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-18 Everton da Silva Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd start hitting up the maintainers (and upstreams) of packages >> which *could* use SRV records, regardless of whether they >> currently do or not, and suggest it to them. > I pla

Re: Need a sponsor to upload #234303

2004-03-18 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2004-03-18 Everton da Silva Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd start hitting up the maintainers (and upstreams) of packages >> which *could* use SRV records, regardless of whether they >> currently do or not, and suggest it to them. > I pla