important information about coming evolve 6.3.0: update client and server together

Faheem Mitha faheem at faheem.info
Wed May 31 00:25:32 UTC 2017


On Tue, 30 May 2017, Augie Fackler wrote:

>> On May 30, 2017, at 8:04 PM, Faheem Mitha <faheem at faheem.info> wrote:

>> Unless I'm missing something Debian's Mercurial packaging has been at a 
>> standstill for a while now. The most recent packaging is 4.0.

>> For people wanting to use packaged versions of Mercurial on Debian, as 
>> I do, this makes it difficult to upgrade Mercurial, at least. And 
>> occasional upgrades of Mercurial will be necessary to continue using 
>> the Evolve extension.

>> I suppose nobody is currently available to upgrade the Mercurial 
>> packaging. Does anyone know the situation here?

> You’d have to ask the debian maintainers.

Yes, I suppose so. If there is anyone to ask.

> Note that `make deb` works quite well in the hg repo, and will give you 
> something valid for your system.

Any idea how `make deb` compares with the official Debian package?

Regards, Faheem Mitha


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