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

Faheem Mitha faheem at faheem.info
Wed May 31 00:39:24 UTC 2017


On Tue, 30 May 2017, Augie Fackler wrote:

>> On May 30, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Faheem Mitha <faheem at faheem.info> wrote:

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

> What I remember:

> * No patches against upstream hg (notably nothing to comply with debian 
> fs layout pedantry)

> * No meaningful changelog

> * I believe debian unbundles some vendored code, which we don’t bother 
> to do

> It should install just fine and have a sensible version number for all 
> of your other debian things, but I can’t promise I got it right either. 
> :)

Thanks, that's helpful. I'll give it a try. Should bugs be reported to the 
usual Mercurial tracker?

Regards, Faheem Mitha


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