Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-19 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jun 19, 2007, at 19:37:51, Jeffrey Hundstad wrote: I'm just not going to let this go. Stable is synonymous with, well ummm, "stable." That means that I don't have 3000 changes a month, it's secure and the unexpected doesn't happen. It means I can write a lecture explaining how git work

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-19 Thread Jeffrey Hundstad
Christoph Lameter wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: The other choice that we developers usually make is to run either testing or unstable. "stable" is a synonym for obsolete ;-). I'm just not going to let this go. Stable is synonymous with, well ummm, "stable." Tha

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-19 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > it already is. But Debian Etch is stable which means there will no newer > version of git in Debian Etch. Currently it is 1.4.whatever. When the > next stable release is released, which takes some time with Debian, > there will be a newer version of g

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hallo, > Is there some way you can feed that into Debian please? Why the go > around through a separate repository? The maintainer of git-core is > not actively maintaining the package? it already is. But Debian Etch is stable which means there will no newer version of git in Debian Etch. Current

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Roland Dreier
> Is there some way you can feed that into Debian please? Why the go around > through a separate repository? The maintainer of git-core is not actively > maintaining the package? No. The current version of git in Debian is 1.5.2.1, a little out of date from the current 1.5.2.2 but not too ba

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello, > a friend of mine always builds the Debian Packages from unstable for > Debian Etch. I have on all my machines the following line in > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://rmdir.de/~michael/git/ ./ > > apt-get update; apt-get dist-u

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, > after having a peek at git-core_1.5.2.1-1.dsc, and then it did build > just fine immediately. good point, that makes sense. I have to keep that in mind. Last time I looked at the failed tests, saw the missing dependency and tried again. :-) Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Carlo Wood
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:56:10PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > true. But when you run sid you get a newer version of git automatically. > Sooner or later. And you can always build it yourself. It's a pain in > the ass until you have all build dependencies installed and all the > tests pass. O

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, * Thomas Glanzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070618 23:56]: > > It seems that this is only for etch (and sarge). I run a mixed > > Lenny/sid machine here. It doesn't necessarily work when I start to > > install things for etch. Certainly not once testing upgrades its libc. > > Or? > true. I g

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, > It seems that this is only for etch (and sarge). I run a mixed > Lenny/sid machine here. It doesn't necessarily work when I start to > install things for etch. Certainly not once testing upgrades its libc. > Or? true. But when you run sid you get a newer version of git automatically. So

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Pierre Habouzit
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 11:25:24PM +0200, Thomas Glanzmann wrote: > Hello, > a friend of mine always builds the Debian Packages from unstable for > Debian Etch. I have on all my machines the following line in > /etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://rmdir.de/~michael/git/ ./ FWIW there i

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Carlo Wood
On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:27:41PM +0100, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > FWIW there is even simpler: I maintain a backport on > www.backports.org. Which is a semi-official service driven by Debian > Developers. It seems that this is only for etch (and sarge). I run a mixed Lenny/sid machine here. It d

GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello, a friend of mine always builds the Debian Packages from unstable for Debian Etch. I have on all my machines the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://rmdir.de/~michael/git/ ./ apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade and you're up2speed. If you don't trust that packages

Re: GIT Packages for Debian Etch

2007-06-18 Thread Thomas Glanzmann
Hello Pierre, > FWIW there is even simpler: I maintain a backport on > www.backports.org. Which is a semi-official service driven by Debian > Developers. good to know, maybe I am going to use backports in the future. Thomas - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu