Re: [Phpwiki-talk] stable release

[Matthew P. <mp...@de...>]

On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 03:42:52AM -0700, Dmitry M. wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 12:17:25PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> > Aristedes Maniatis schrieb:
> > >OK. That is good to know. I am not running Debian, but is there a 1.3.=
7=20
> > >tar somewhere or is it only possible to fetch that version out of CVS?
> >=20
> > 1.3.7 is not on sf.net anymore, and I don't consider 1.3.7 stable=20
> > enough. Compared to 1.3.9 and 10.
> > I fixed about 60 bugs that were in 1.3.7 and before.
>=20
> 1.3.7 is still available from debian software repository
> (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/phpwiki). It's pretty
> embarassing actually.

In what way is it embarassing?  I have a codebase and set of features that I
know well enough, and have kneaded most of the bugs out of.  I'm quite happy
to track stable branches, as they come out, but keeping up to date with (and
triaging) unstable, potentially quite buggy, releases is quite beyond my
limited time, especially when I've got to try cherry-picking fixes out of
CVS, with it's "every file is tracked separately" mentality.

I am planning on packaging one of the newer releases in the near future, for
a gforge module someone is packaging separately, but trying to find the time
for it is somewhat difficult, because I have to not only update the
packaging, but test both fresh installs and upgrades from a good half-dozen
previous versions to ensure I'm not going to get hate-mail from people whose
databases I've just trashed.  And the reports from people that various
things don't work in 1.3.10 doesn't fill me with joy, either.

If you'd like to take the package over in Debian, feel free.  I'm even happy
to sponsor your uploads until you pass through NM.

> If you really want 1.3.7, all you need to do is download the deb and
> untar it. It will untar into a debian specific tree, but you shouldn't
> have any problems.

Or you can just download the .orig.tar.gz, which will get you exactly what
was downloaded from SourceForge, without *any* Debian-specific (or even
general-purpose) changes.

- Matt