Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:32 +0000, Paul wrote:
>
>>Hi Philippe
>>
>>On Tuesday 13 March 2007 16:30, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>
>>>>A question for the project admins: Do you have a Release Manager to
>>>>coordinate package releases ?
>>>
>>>I'm currently coordinating the Xenomai releases, with input from the
>>>sub-systems/architecture maintainers. I guess that by "package", you are
>>>referring to another division of the work, though.
>>
>>By "package", I mean binaries in the form of *.deb and/or *.rpm - Whilst I'm
>>happy to build and host i386/x86 Debian packages, I'm concerned about
>>treading on someone's toes without a discussion about revision numbers and
>>general policy about "official" releases.
>
>
> So far, we don't have an established policy for making distro-oriented
> packages; a few people have contributed some of them from time to time,
> but there is no "appointed" maintainer doing sustained work for the
> project on this issue yet.
>
>
>> For example, the packages I've
>>built to date have used 2.3.50 even although a tarball of that version hasn't
>>been released.. That could well cause confusion for users and yourself if
>>bugs are reported. There is also a minor problem with keeping the
>>debian/changelog in sync.
>>
>> One possible answer is for me to rebuild my repository from scratch and
>>append the SVN revision number to revision number so that we end up with
>>2.3.50-1~r2289 - This would allow an official 2.3.50-1 release to override
>>the ~r2289 revision..
>>
>
>
> It would be saner to use the commit number indeed, especially since it
> allows decouple the package versioning from the source releases while
> keeping a reference to a common history of changes.
Do we really want to make debian packages with trunk ? Would not it make
sense to only make debian packages from stable releases ?
--
Gilles Chanteperdrix
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