[geos-devel] Repackaging releases

[Kurt Schwehr]

The joys of software release :)

As a packager of geos in fink, I would suggest going to 3.0.2.  Using  
the -1 -2 -3 series will get confusing at best.  Tars that change  
make things happen that confuse the packagers, the users, and the  
mirroring systems.

Thanks,
-kurt


> OK, now it's back to 1.5.26, hopefully that helps.
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> Paul,
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> Speaking as someone who has in the past repackaged releases and then
> suffered substantial criticism from "downstream", I'd encourage you to
> actually issue updates as 3.0.2 and so forth even if only updating  
> stuff
> like libtool.
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> 3.0.2 or 3.0.1-1?
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> P.
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> The 3.0.1-1, and 3.0.1-2 would normally indicate particular packaging
> attempts against a fixed 3.0.1 source tarball.  So the "dash  
> series" is
> really naming reserved for packagers (Debian, OSGeo4W, etc) rather  
> than
> source releases from the projects.
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