add a topic but not a head

Uwe Brauer oub at mat.ucm.es
Fri Jun 14 12:13:52 UTC 2019


> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019, Uwe Brauer wrote:


> It's fairly easy to obtain a Debian package for Mercurial. In many
> cases, the Debian package from unstable will install on testing or
> stable. And if not, it's trivial to rebuild it. It's also quite easy
> to adapt the existing Debian packaging for new releases, in cases
> where it's not already been packaged.

I am on Ubuntu 16.04. I have to use lauchpad 
https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/releases

To get only  4.4 but nothing more recent.



> Also, Mercurial itself has the `make deb` command, but I have not used


That is not what the documentation says hm you are right there is a deb
in the target file. I will try that, that would be of course great.
I see now that evolve has a deb-prepare target, interesting.

Uwe 



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