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

Augie Fackler raf at durin42.com
Wed May 31 00:42:58 UTC 2017


> On May 30, 2017, at 8:39 PM, Faheem Mitha <faheem at faheem.info> wrote:
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> On Tue, 30 May 2017, Augie Fackler wrote:
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>>> On May 30, 2017, at 8:25 PM, Faheem Mitha <faheem at faheem.info> wrote:
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>>> Any idea how `make deb` compares with the official Debian package?
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>> What I remember:
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>> * No patches against upstream hg (notably nothing to comply with debian fs layout pedantry)
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>> * No meaningful changelog
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>> * I believe debian unbundles some vendored code, which we don’t bother to do
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>> 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. :)
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> Thanks, that's helpful. I'll give it a try. Should bugs be reported to the usual Mercurial tracker?

Yes, with the caveat that I might close things as wontfix[0]) if they’re packaging related rather than hg bugs. :)


0: e.g. “default editor is vi instead of sensible-editor” isn’t something I care to patch, that’s something the downstream debian package can/should take care of (though that particular example might be fixed now…)

> 
> Regards, Faheem Mitha




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