On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Artur R. Czechowski <artu...@snafu.pl> wrote:
> Upstream of imms stopped to ship tar.gz file and ships only tar.bz2. So they deleted existing tarballs and added new tar.bz2 tarballs? > However, there is no new upstream release at the moment. The question is: > Shall I prepare new release of Debian package using tar.bz2 tarball? Send upstream Ubuntu's patch, make patches for the 2 bugs, poke them to make a new release, fix the watch file etc and then upload that. > There was a short discussion on #debian-devel, but there was no conclusion. > Possible answers are: > 1. Definitely, if possible you shall keep the tarball the same as upstream > tarball (unless other concerns are involved, like, for example, DFSG > compliancy). > 2. Absolutely not. Just stick to current tarball and switch when new upstream > release will be available. > 3. This is the sole maintainer's decision. I prefer my solution, but otherwise 3, then 2 then 1. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktinmudppyhhlodt3jz3lffbug0hafnmnqzexo...@mail.gmail.com
