On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Tom Russo wrote:
I agree, but it could be a real hassle for any package maintainer to keep
a package with CVS-head or a development snapshot --- I believe the
development snapshots happen at least once a month these days.
I can easily believe that it's enough work just to keep up with stable
releases, which are much less frequent.
I don't know if the ubuntu package maintainer is on this list --- as far as
I know it isn't one of the xastir developers.
The maintainer is Hamish Moffatt, according to the package itself.
I found an article out on Linux.com with a HOWTO on package building, so I
decided to teach myself how to do it by making a .deb of a more recent CVS
version.
I thought I'd just pull in the source of the Ubuntu package, then update
it with cvs, then re-build the package. Sounds simple. Well, after doing
a cvs checkout, I look in the xastir/ directory, and the Changelog has no
notes since last November, which is when the 1.8.4 package was built.
I've done some other poking around, and I don't find where the current
version number is defined. WHen I run diff against the two directories, In
acinclude.m4, I find an $Id: line that changed, with the ubuntu version
having a 2006/02/09 date and your id 'tvrusso'. The current -r STABLE
lists 2007/01/12 and we7u.
I guess I'll just compile and build that and see what I get...
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
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