[Pkg-ace-devel] Closing RC bugs

Thomas Girard thomas.g.girard at free.fr
Mon Nov 16 22:25:29 UTC 2009


Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:
>> Three questions so far:
>>  1. Are you sure about the following mpc-ace change:
>>    from:
>>      Replaces: libace-dev (= 5.6.3-4)
>>    to:
>>      Replaces: libace-dev (< 5.7.4-1)
>>    ?
> 
> What's wrong about it? I must confess I don't really understand it but
> the change was meant for cases where you may have, for instance, ACE
> 5.6.3-3 instead of 5.6.3-4 and you are now upgrading to 5.7.4-1 :-?

I believe it is written in debian/changelog (can't check right now, I'm
in a hurry), but version 5.6.3-4 (and only that one) erroneusly
contained a file that belonged in mpc-ace. So if you upgrade from
5.6.3-3 you're safe.

>>  2. What is debian/dsc from? What is it for?
> 
> I "inherited" it from ACE, see below.
> 
>>  3. It seems debian/libtao-orbsvcs-1.7.4.NEWS was resurrected from the
>>    past?
> 
> Yes, that's because I took the 'debianbuild' directory from ACE 5.7.4
> instead of the debian packaging for 5.6.3-5. Totally wrong, as I have
> seen today, because the 'debianbuild' in ACE 5.7.4 seems to be from an
> older Debian package.
> 
> I will rebase my work against the current 5.6.3 branch and commit as
> soon as I can (which will probably be this Tuesday)

Okay, thanks.

Regards,

Thomas



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