[72] in athena10
Re: Athena 10 source packages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed Jan 30 15:35:08 2008
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: athena10@MIT.EDU
From: amu@alum.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:34:25 -0500
In-Reply-To: <athena10:70@unknown-discuss-server> (Greg Hudson's message of "Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:13:54 -0500")
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> How cranky will the Debian package tools get if the orig tarball
> changes from release to release without the upstream version number
> changing? This may be an issue even without the transform step, since
I *think* they'll mostly deal as long as you only advertise one
version at a time, but there will still be some rough edges,
particularly for the various smart cachers that exist. There's a
pristine-tar tool that can let you avoid carrying the full tarball
around, though:
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/pristine-tar/
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC (amu at alum.mit.edu, ucko at debian.org)
http://www.mit.edu/~amu/ | http://stuff.mit.edu/cgi/finger/?amu@monk.mit.edu
