Release Jed 0.99.18-1

[G. Milde]

On 16.05.06, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> * G. Milde <g.milde at web.de> [2006-05-16 13:43]:
> 
> >        BTW: What is the difference of README.debian vs.
> >             jed-common.README.Debian?
> 
> This is a real problem, thanks for spotting it.  It seems that only
> jed-common.README.Debian is installed as /usr/share/doc/jed/README.Debian
> and that README.Debian is never installed.  This happens because
> /usr/share/doc/jed is a symlink to /usr/share/doc/jed-common. 
.. 
> At any rate, we must update the text in README.Debian, which refers to
> version 0.99-17 of JED.

I simply replaced README.Debian with jed-common.README.Debian. (Version
specific info should IMO go to either the Debian changelog or the NEWS file.)

 
> > >    * Cope with the jedstate package, which will be become useless
> > >      with the new jed pacakge
> > 
> >        Could we just replace|conflict?
> 
> Yes, this is what I thought.  

Second thought: conflict with the current version  jedstate (<= 0.5.4-5)

                This way the maintainer has a chance to decide
                whether to update the package or to let
                gdbmrecent replace it.
                
                The conflict is in the naming of the
                jed-config-dir (now /etc/jed.d/) and maybe more
                ...


> There is now the gdbmrecent package that
> can provide the same functionality of jedstate.  

Is gdbmrecent a separate package or part of jed-extra?

> We might provide a script to convert the ~/.jedstate.db file into the
> ~/.recent_db file of gdbmrecent.  That should not be too complicated, since
> both have the same type:
> 
> $ file ~/.recent_db ~/.jedstate.db
> /home/rafael/.recent_db:       GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian
> /home/rafael/.jedstate.db:     GNU dbm 1.x or ndbm database, little endian

It would be nice if you could contact the jedstate maintainer Michael Hummel 
mailto:mhummel at debian.org and discuss the issue with him (or
invite him to discuss it here on the list).

Günter


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