James McCoy <[email protected]> writes: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 08:08:54PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath wrote: >> I was looking to install pollen[1] a book publication system written in >> racket only to notice that it needs racket 6, or at least I'm not sure >> how to install it using raco of current racket in unstable. > > I've started working on packaging 6.1. As David mentioned, they've > reorganized their source layout, so it's going to require some > adjustments in how we build the packages. Relatedly, I'm also doing a > review of the debian/copyright since some of the files with problematic > licensing seem to have been removed. >
Depending on how much repacking is needed, it occured to me that it may be better to ignore completely the tarballs distributed by upstream and just generate our own tarballs from the upstream tags. Unfortunately the new setup renames thousands of files when generating a tarball, so there is no nice correspondence between (the tree of) the tag and the extracted tarball. Alternatively we can give up on tracking upstream history. I guess if no repacking at all is needed, then the benefits of having matching checksums with upstream probably outweigh any potential cherry-picking of patches. d -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
