Re: [Notion-devel] Debian packaging

[Josef 'J. S. <je...@jo...>]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 01:52:46PM +0100, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> 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?

FWIW, I knew that there was something in there called pwm, but I never used
it/looked into it.  I suspect many others did the same.

> > 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?

I noticed the odd looking version number too.  I'd be for notion$X-$Y, where
$X is the major number (= 3 at the moment) and $Y is some sort of minor
version number (either a counter or a timestamp).

Jeff.

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