Re: [mdb-dev] Many patches, is that project dead? Fork?

[Tim R. <ti...@re...>]

On 17 June 2010 20:07, Nirgal Vourgère <con...@ni...> wrote:
> Patches starting with 0 - I mean having a number < 100 - are from the Debian repository. I guess Tim will know about these better than me.

For the record, you'll always be able to get Debian's patches from:

http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/mdbtools

or straight out of git:

http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/mdbtools.git;a=tree;f=debian/patches;hb=HEAD

Some of them are in a bit of a mess, and the original motivation for
them might have been lost.  But I'm not going to carry patches
unnecessarily, so I'll find a way of figuring out what they all do, or
drop them.

I'm going to take a look now at making a new Debian release based on a
git snapshot. The thing I want to watch out for is breaking the API -
this stopped me basing a release on CVS HEAD before, I think, because
our automated tools flagged something up.

Or if we do break API, we'll need a soname bump, and that's fine as well.

-- 
Tim Retout <ti...@re...>