Re: Source tarball update/fix

2015-12-30 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
On Monday, December 28 2015, Ben Finney wrote: > Sergio Durigan Junior writes: > >> On Monday, December 28 2015, Ben Finney wrote: >> > If you want a suffix indicating “later than 0.5.11”, a conventional >> > separator to use is “+”. So, “0.5.11+ds1”. >> >> I was afraid you were going to say that

Re: Source tarball update/fix

2015-12-29 Thread Ben Finney
Sergio Durigan Junior writes: > On Monday, December 28 2015, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > > > also the - is a good separator. > > Heh, sometimes the solution is so obvious... For some reason (so > obscure that I cannot remember), I thought that '-' could not be used in > this specific case. I

Re: Source tarball update/fix

2015-12-29 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
On Monday, December 28 2015, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Hi, > > also the - is a good separator. Heh, sometimes the solution is so obvious... For some reason (so obscure that I cannot remember), I thought that '-' could not be used in this specific case. That's why I was trying with '+' or '

Re: Source tarball update/fix

2015-12-28 Thread Ben Finney
Sergio Durigan Junior writes: > On Monday, December 28 2015, Ben Finney wrote: > > If you want a suffix indicating “later than 0.5.11”, a conventional > > separator to use is “+”. So, “0.5.11+ds1”. > > I was afraid you were going to say that... > > My first attempt was to use '+ds1' instead of '~

Re: Source tarball update/fix

2015-12-28 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, also the - is a good separator. you can use dpkg --compare-versions to see if the version is good or not. cheers, G. Il Lunedì 28 Dicembre 2015 17:05, Sergio Durigan Junior ha scritto: On Monday, December 28 2015, Ben Finney wrote: Hi Ben, Thanks for the reply. > Sergio Durigan Ju

Re: Source tarball update/fix

2015-12-28 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
On Monday, December 28 2015, Ben Finney wrote: Hi Ben, Thanks for the reply. > Sergio Durigan Junior writes: > >> After reading the policy and having a brief chat with Paul Tagliamonte >> on #debian-devel, the apparent solution would be to rename the source >> tarball. Today, it is named "mido

Re: Source tarball update/fix

2015-12-27 Thread Ben Finney
Sergio Durigan Junior writes: > After reading the policy and having a brief chat with Paul Tagliamonte > on #debian-devel, the apparent solution would be to rename the source > tarball. Today, it is named "midori_0.5.11.orig.tar.bz2". My decision > was to rename it to "midori_0.5.11~ds1.orig.ta

Source tarball update/fix

2015-12-27 Thread Sergio Durigan Junior
Hi, When I had my first Debian package accepted (Midori, last year), somehow the source tarball (.orig.tar.bz2) file got changed during the upload by my sponsor. I do not really know what happened (I remember checking everything over and over, and the pristine-tar branch on the repository *is* co