freebsd-buildutils and freebsd5-buildutils (was: no subject)

[Aurelien Jarno]

Santiago Vila a écrit :
> On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>
>> While trying to adopt your packages concerning kfreebsd, I noticed that
>> there is two packages very similar, kfreebsd-buildutils and
>> kfreebsd5-buildutils. Could you tell me what are the exact differences,
>> as
>> they seems to contain very similar files (although kfreebsd-buildutils
>> seems to be slightly outdated)? Moreover kfreebsd5-source depends on
>> kfreebsd5-buildutils or kfreebsd-buildutils (actually on a version that
>> still don't exists).
>>
>> If one of them could not be directly dropped, do you think it would be
>> possible to merge them?
>
> I'm not Robert, but perhaps I can give a partial answer.
>
> First of all, I assume you really mean "freebsd-buildutils" and
> "freebsd5-buildutils" here.

Yes, sorry. Actually I am currently on a win**** machine, behind a
firewall that only authorize http, so I only have a web browser and a
webmail, where I would prefer a real mail client (hence the no subject),
and a unix shell with unix tools.

> If you diff the changelogs you will see that freebsd5-buildutils is
> clearly derived from freebsd-buildutils, this is the first changelog
> entry in freebsd5-buildutils not in freebsd-buildutils:
>
> +freebsd5-buildutils (5.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
> +
> +  * Fork for 5.x branch (package been renamed).
> +    - patches/02_silly_macros.diff:  Sync.
> +
> + -- Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>  Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:14:35 +0100

Nice catch, that explains a lot of things.

> If the meaning of this is "let's rename the package so that we can
> break compatibility with 4.x", then I assume we could happily drop the
> old freebsd-buildutils package.

Ok, so as I don't think we should support 4.x FreeBSD, I'll only upload
freebsd5-buildutils, and I'll ask for removal of freebsd-buildutils.

Bye,
Aurelien

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