[Pkg-x2go-devel] Fwd: Processed: changing RFP -> ITP, change owner

[Stéphane Graber]

On 10/04/2011 03:41 PM, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Di, Okt 04, 2011 at 20:56:54 (CEST), Mike Gabriel wrote:
>
>> Hi Reinhard,
>>
>> On Di 04 Okt 2011 15:48:26 CEST Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>
>>> IMO, the most important blocker is the lack of a recent upstream release
>>> that contains tarballs, which we could use for packaging. Or do you want
>>> to go ahead and package git snapshots?
>>
>> There are tarballs for quite some packages available already:
>>
>> http://code.x2go.org/releases/source
>>
>> So, basically, the answer is: yes, build from tarballs.
>
> I see. Seems a bit cluttered to me, but so be it. BTW, are the dashes
> '-' in the version numbers on purpose? TBH, I find them highly annoying,
> because they lead to package versions such as:
>
> nxcomp_3.5.0-1-1.dsc
> nxcomp_3.5.0-1-1.debian.tar.gz
> nxcomp_3.5.0-1.orig.tar.gz

That's unfortunately what NoMachine uses in its version numbers...
So yeah it looks ugly in the Debian version number but still works 
(nxproxy in Debian/Ubuntu is already like that).

>>> When that's cleared, I could and would start with packaging and
>>> updating and uploading the NX core related bits to unstable.
>>
>> Great, could you use our started projects on collab-maint/Alioth space
>> for that, please? Thanks!
>> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/nxcomp.git;a=summary
>> et al.
>
> Allright, I'll look into that tomorrow.
>
> May I take that I may overwrite your previous commits in those
> repositories with something that contains more history?

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