On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Joseph R. Justice <jayare...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/23/11, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Bhavani Shankar R wrote: > >>> Regarding watch file I'm a bit skeptical as its a package which has >>> regular commits upstream and requires frequent updation of the package >>> in the archives I think personally and using the ftp site for the >>> tarball location in watch file could lead to confusions with the >>> versions in the archive. And if the watch file is removed lintian >>> throws up error. So Antii (marked in CC) can pitch in I guess. >> >> This is why I think packaging it at all is possibly a bad idea since >> people running Debian stable/oldstable will always have old >> information. It would be better if the software that uses it were to >> be responsible for downloading it periodically. > > [Kerrect speeling note: Instead of "updation of", I probably would > have written "updates [of/to]".]
Sorry for the typo. I'll correct my spellings in the future :) > > Wouldn't this combination of factoids [(1) that the package has > regular commits upstream of important data contained within the > package, (2) that the package therefore needs to be frequently updated > to get the new data from upstream incorporated into the package, and > (3) that these updates need to be made available to people running > Debian stable and oldstable without requiring those people to install > a version of this package from testing or unstable] therefore suggest > that this package is a candidate for debian-volatile (or whatever that > is called these days)? I've been subscribing to the applicable Debian > announcement mailing list (debian-volatile-announce@lists.d.o) for a > little while now, and I see mention of updates to tzdata and clamav. > > Looking at http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2011/msg00000.html > , I guess it's now called squeeze-updates, not debian-volatile. > However, the point still stands: "This suite will contain updates that > satisfy one of the following criteria: [...] * The package in question > is a data package and the data must be updated in a timely manner > (e.g. tzdata)." > I was thinking of uploading regular stable release updates both in debian and ubuntu. I'll work on this regard coming weekend. Thanks for all inputs and support. > As for if there should be a watch file, or what the watch file should > be if there should be one at all, that I do not know. (Is there a > facility / capability yet for watching for changes to a git / bzr / hg > / svn / cvs / etc archive, and should that facility be used instead > for this package instead of watching a (relatively) static tarball > file if the facility is available for use?) > Yes the package does have a git handle: http://git.gnome.org/browse/mobile-broadband-provider-info/ but there is nothing as such as a static tarball on the site. Need more clarity on this. > Thanks for your time. Hope this is of some use, interest. > Thank you too for your time and interest Regards. -- Bhavani Shankar Ubuntu Developer | www.ubuntu.com https://launchpad.net/~bhavi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAESiwnsRuSRzDvQ9TUV0oXkVvJbYy1aCe6f4RFyk+UZpWo7=5...@mail.gmail.com
