Re: [Notion-devel] Debian packaging

[Arnout E. <no...@bz...>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 11:35:04AM +0100, Philipp Hartwig wrote:
> are you aware that there is a newer Debian package available from
> http://snapshot.debian.org/package/ion3/20090110-3/

No, I wasn't, thanks!

> I think this would be a better place to start. 

Obviously

> it doesn't seem to have the checks on whether the version being installed is
> up-to-date which Tuomo was requiring at some point (look at template and 
> notion.postinst in your tree).

Indeed we don't need those anymore

> What's the policy on pwm3? Is this supposed to be renamed to pwm3plus 
> everywere?

Do we want to keep pwm at all? Or do we want to drop it entirely?

> Lintian and others don't seem to be too happy about your choice of version 
> number because they consider it to be older than the Ion3 versions (the 
> leading 3 is the problem). Maybe just drop it?

I'm not sure - using *just* the date as the version would get us into trouble
when we ever want a 'Notion 4' (a major rewrite or something). Having seperate
packages for those (like 'ion2' and 'ion3' previously) would be something I'd 
probably like to avoid. OTOH if it really warrants a new major version number
perhaps it should allow users to have both installed alongside each other. What
do you think?


Kind regards,

Arnout