Re: Preferences regarding Debian's Guile version string

2013-09-21 Thread Rob Browning
Andy Wingo writes: > Hi, > > It seems that Guile has support for specifying the packager, package > version, and URL for package-specific bug reports. This ends up forming > part of %guile-build-info, and also propagates out to guile --help. Oh, and if it matters, it looks like it doesn't show

Re: Preferences regarding Debian's Guile version string

2013-09-21 Thread Rob Browning
Andy Wingo writes: > It seems that Guile has support for specifying the packager, package > version, and URL for package-specific bug reports. OK, thanks. So would this represent a roughly correct interpretation of the intent of those variables? #define PACKAGE_PACKAGER "Debian" #define PA

Re: Preferences regarding Debian's Guile version string

2013-09-21 Thread Andy Wingo
Hi, It seems that Guile has support for specifying the packager, package version, and URL for package-specific bug reports. This ends up forming part of %guile-build-info, and also propagates out to guile --help. Unfortunately there's no configure argument for it, that I know of, but if you add t

Preferences regarding Debian's Guile version string

2013-09-20 Thread Rob Browning
[If possible (and appropriate), please preserve the cc to debian-bugs.] I forget what prompted it, but it may have been a complaint that Debian's Guile should indicate that it's not a "normal" upstream version. (Though lately, it's pretty close.) In any case, with guile-2.0, I changed it so that