Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian

2007-05-01 Thread Adam Cécile (Le_Vert)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bart Martens a écrit : > Hi Package Maintainers (DD's and non-DD's), > > Now that Etch is released to stable, many package maintainers have > already updated their packages to the newest upstream releases. That is > of course very good. > > However,

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-01 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Tue, 01 May 2007 14:02:16 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > I have updated the list to hide packages with identical upstream > version numbers but with different epochs. This might hide some > real positives but most likely hides more false positives. I suggest to take into account experime

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian

2007-05-01 Thread Warren Turkal
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 04:40, Bart Martens wrote: > Yes, see "uversionmangle" in "man uscan". Thanks, I'll check it out. wt -- Warren Turkal, Research Associate III/Systems Administrator Colorado State University, Dept. of Atmospheric Science -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-01 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 02:39:27PM +0200, Eric Lavarde wrote: > Hello Bart, > > is there some kind of agreement between Debian and Ubuntu concerning the > distribution part of the version? The scheme is described here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment#UbuntuPackages which is linked, al

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-01 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hello Bart, is there some kind of agreement between Debian and Ubuntu concerning the distribution part of the version? I ask this because you seem to assume that: X.Y.Z-K (Debian) << X.Y.Z-L (Ubuntu) X.Y.Z-K (Debian) << X.Y.Z-KubuntuA (Ubuntu) (also dfsg stuff doesn't s

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian (reduced false positives)

2007-05-01 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:49 +0200, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-01 11:21]: > > Another approach for identifying packages to be updated in Debian to > > newer upstream releases is by comparing Debian with Ubuntu. Here is a > > list of packages that are newer

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian

2007-05-01 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 03:58 -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Tuesday 01 May 2007 03:21, Bart Martens wrote: > > However, some packages have no working debian/watch file, and then it is > > not always easily seen whether there are newer upstream releases > > available for these packages. I suggest

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian

2007-05-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-01 11:21]: > Another approach for identifying packages to be updated in Debian to > newer upstream releases is by comparing Debian with Ubuntu. Here is a > list of packages that are newer in Ubuntu than in Debian, grouped by > maintainer: > http://people

Re: packages newer in Ubuntu than in Debian

2007-05-01 Thread Warren Turkal
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 03:21, Bart Martens wrote: > However, some packages have no working debian/watch file, and then it is > not always easily seen whether there are newer upstream releases > available for these packages.  I suggest to add/update debian/watch with > your next updates of your pack