Re: [Notion-devel] Debian packaging

[Philipp H. <phi...@un...>]

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

Actually the diff between the two debian folders is rather small. It should 
be straightforward to just merge it with the changes you have already done.

> > 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?

Personally I had never even heard of pwm3 to this day. The man page says 
that it is identical to Ion3 with the only difference lying in the default 
configuration file. I certainly don't see a reason to ship a separate 
binary file for that but that's just my personal opinion.
There is a discussion about the same question here:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261076

Maybe dropping pwm3 but documenting the configuration necessary to achieve 
its behavior with notion is the right thing to do?

> > 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?

How about just dropping the Ion3 history from the changelog and write 
"Inital release. Based on the Ion3 package, version 20090110-3, by Ben 
Hutchings." or something like that. This would give us complete liberty in 
the version numbers. Are you against version numbers like 3.0? I would 
leave the name at notion for the moment, we would then still have the 
option of releasing a notion4 package with all files renamed to notion4 if 
that looks like the reasonable thing to do at some point in the future.

Regards,
Philipp