[GRASS5] GRASS 5.0.0 to be released now

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 01:31:59PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> Markus Neteler wrote:
> | Dear developers,
> |
> | Glynn Clements has tagged "release_30_08_2002_grass5_0_0" for
> | us, at time the packaging of GRASS 5.0.0 is running (source code
> | and GNU/Linux-x86 binaries) here.
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> | Tomorrow morning (Central European time) we should have
> | the stable GRASS 5.0.0 release in our hands!
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> Is it too late to fix the source tarall?

no, there is still time :-)
 
> It doesn't have a top directory (grass5.0.0) which all the pre-releases had.

Oops. 

> To stick with standard packaging, it should actually be grass-5.0.0 (so
> that the RPM default %prep works, which uses %name-%version), and the
> source tarball should actually be grass-5.0.0.tar.gz (or, I guess you
> could do grass-5.0.0_src.tar.gz), instead of the current
> grass5.0.0_src.tar.gz.
> 
> Otherwise, I am going to have to hack the %prep section , and probably
> return it like it was later.
> 
> Regards,
> Buchan

Thanks for your comments,
I'll check that.

 Markus