Re: gnuplot 5.2.2

[Mojca M. <moj...@gm...>]

Hi,

On 15 November 2017 at 16:48, sfeam wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 November 2017 14:50:56 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm maintaining a package for gnuplot for a package manager that keeps
>> reminding me of an apparent new version of gnuplot 5.2.2 which can
>> only be found under the testing directory.
>>
>> The source of information:
>>     https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplot/rss
>>
>> Is there any chance to remove the misleading source of information
>> that keeps confusing both me and our package manager?
>
> In what way is that information confusing?
> There is a testing version of 5.2.2 and it is in the "testing" area.

I need a reliable regular expression to extract the latest version of
gnuplot from somewhere and then the package manage keeps reminding the
maintainers when it's time to upgrade the software they are
responsible for.

That has worked reliably for years, but for a while it was giving me
misinformation about version 5.2.2 being released. Initially I thought
there was already a release, so I fixed the package and tried to
download 5.2.2, only to realize that it failed to fetch any files. I
needed to dig for quite a while to actually figure out what exactly
happened and why it was reporting a version that I could not find
anywhere.


Now that the version has actually been released, this is no longer an
issue (an least not until another version get "released" that way).

Mojca