On 17-05-13 08:01, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > > On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Chow Loong Jin <hyper...@debian.org > <mailto:hyper...@debian.org>> wrote: > > On 17/05/2013 01:01, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > > > Patch releases are NOT available as zip files and the list of > wrongdoings is long: > > - Patch releases are only available from the git repository > c5fe17bb4459164bd59153b57248cf94b8867373 > Maybe I'm daft, but I can't seem to find any patch releases, > actually. Where are > they stored? > > > They are in the git repository with no tags and no indication in the > commit message, you have to read the diff. Upstream usually announces > patch releases in the mailing list (without saying the commit id of the > release) but sometimes they even forget :-( > > c2417972af1295be8dcc07470b0e3d25b0a77e0b is 2.3.2 (untagged) > > 8ccc429598d62eebe9f65a0a4e6fd406a123c8b4 is 2.3.1 (untagged) > > c1c7a4dfa63bb6684d3670202e4a65d400dfce86 is 2.3.0 (tagged) > > c5fe17bb4459164bd59153b57248cf94b8867373 is 2.2.23 (untagged)
Oh. my. god. Just ask your upstream to do proper releases rather than manually *pointing* to git commits? Really, this kind of behaviour is horrible, and causing you all kinds of problems. I doubt you'll be the only one who's having problems; people who install from source will have issues, too. Git is a version control system, not a version release system. -- This end should point toward the ground if you want to go to space. If it starts pointing toward space you are having a bad problem and you will not go to space today. -- http://xkcd.com/1133/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5197269b.2000...@debian.org
