Evolve with hg 2.8.2

Faheem Mitha faheem at faheem.info
Tue Nov 11 13:04:19 UTC 2014


On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> 3.1.1 is the current version in Debian. The package has not yet been updated
> to 3.2. You should use 3.2 once it comes out in Debian. Rebuilding it on
> Ubuntu is trivial.
>
> I think Javi Merino (who currently seems to be the sole active member of the
> Debian Mercurial team) hasn't got around to it yet. Jordi just pinged me on
> #mercurial as follows:
>
>    faheem_: Still no hg 3.2 in Debian. Think that Javi needs help?
>
> I imagine that Jordi is subscribed to the evolve-testers list, but I am CCing
> him anyway.
>
> I tried resyncing the Debian patches against 3.1 for 3.2rc, but experienced
> some problems, and dropped it. I'm not so familar with most of those Debian
> patches, so didn't want to screw up.
>
> Both Jordi and I would be willing to help Debian with packaging. (I probably
> shouldn't speak for Jordi though.) I did once write (not long ago) to Debian
> offering help, but got no reply.

Looks like Javi just uploaded to experimental and refreshed the patches. 
See https://bugs.debian.org/768022

If you want to see the patches, you can do

svn co svn://anonscm.debian.org/python-apps/packages/mercurial/trunk debian-mercurial

                                                               Regards, Faheem



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