Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-06 Thread Thierry Huchard
Message sent some time ago: Hi Ralph You can't use git in the launchpad build environment So the reslease version is placed in the gitdescrib file To solve the build problem I propose you a fix via a patch modification : debian/patches/0720-sane-git-snapshot-enable-aclocal.patch and a

Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-06 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Further to my previous comment about the releases page fluff, that seems to have gone now. Please disregard my comment! :D Cheers, Ralph On 2023-02-06 20:04, m. allan noah wrote: Hmm, looks like AC_INIT calls `./tools/git-version-gen --prefix '' .tarball-version`, which returns UNKNOWN.

Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-06 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On 2023-02-06 20:04, m. allan noah wrote: Hmm, looks like AC_INIT calls `./tools/git-version-gen --prefix '' .tarball-version`, which returns UNKNOWN. Seems like our release process might be leaving out some steps. I guess I'll dig more tomorrow. IIRC, this has been a long-standing

Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-06 Thread m. allan noah
Hmm, looks like AC_INIT calls `./tools/git-version-gen --prefix '' .tarball-version`, which returns UNKNOWN. Seems like our release process might be leaving out some steps. I guess I'll dig more tomorrow. allan On Mon, Feb 6, 2023 at 10:44 PM m. allan noah wrote: > So, I was able to do the

Re: [sane-devel] Happy new year- time for a sane-backends release!

2023-02-06 Thread m. allan noah
So, I was able to do the release on time (after filling in a few blanks in our documentation). But I only did the website updates tonight. I seem to have run into a small problem there- when I download the release tarball, and run ./autogen.sh, i get a ./configure file which has 'UNKNOWN' as the