Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-12 Thread Jean-Michel Vourgère
On Saturday 08 February 2014 09:01:46 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: > > On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > >Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? > > > > A version similar to skia_0.0-1

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Tzafrir Cohen > Answering myself: here's a simpler trick: > > Subversion revisions: > > 0~svn > > Switching to git: > > 0.0~git Why do you want to put the git/svn before the revision information? 0~20140209+svn1234 0~20140209+git$sha1 If you need more than one a day, you can do 0~201402

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Another round of nitpicking: On Sat, Feb 08, 2014 at 10:01:46AM +0100, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: > > On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > >Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? > > >

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-08 Thread Michael Shuler
On 02/08/2014 05:55 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: On 2014-02-08 10:01, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version sim

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-08 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Tzafrir Cohen (2014-02-08 10:01:46) > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: >> On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >>>Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make >>>releases? >> >> A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would a

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-08 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2014-02-08 10:01, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: >> On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >>> Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? >> >> A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 10:41:56AM -0600, Michael Shuler wrote: > On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > >Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? > > A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream > version of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Steve McIntyre
Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > >I am interested in packaging Skia ( https://code.google.com/p/skia/ ), the >2D library used in Chromium, Firefox and others. I need it because a >package I maintain (witty) is replacing GraphicsMagick with Skia. > >I went to Skia's download page and... found there is n

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Pau Garcia i Quiles (2014-02-07 17:51:47) > I have also noticed Firefox includes Skia in its source package, > although it may be justified because they heavily patch Skia. Icedove > (Thunderbird) and XULRunner also include their own version of Skia. Thanks for noticing! Please report t

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Eugene Zhukov
My apologies if something isn't right with this email, I'm writing from my phone. > On 7.2.2014, at 18.25, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > Hello, > > I am interested in packaging Skia ( https://code.google.com/p/skia/ ), the 2D > library used in Chromium, Firefox and others. I need it because

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > If your upstream is git, you don't have monotonically increasing > revision numbers, but (unordered) commit hashes. I usually use something > based on 'git describe' as that gives you a number of commits since a > reference tag in additio

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Michael Shuler (2014-02-07 17:41:56) > On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > > Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? > > A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream version > of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever release) to supe

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 2014-02-07 17:25, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? You usually make up your own upstream version number, either revision-based or date-based or both. Just ensure you use a version that sorts before any later upstream release.

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 5:41 PM, Michael Shuler wrote: > Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? >> > > A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream version > of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever release) to supersede your packaged version. It > should al

Re: Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Michael Shuler
On 02/07/2014 10:25 AM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: Is there a policy on how to package software that does not make releases? A version similar to skia_0.0-1~svnr1234 would allow an upstream version of i.e. 0.1 (if they ever release) to supersede your packaged version. It should also allow you

Unreleased libraries

2014-02-07 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Hello, I am interested in packaging Skia ( https://code.google.com/p/skia/ ), the 2D library used in Chromium, Firefox and others. I need it because a package I maintain (witty) is replacing GraphicsMagick with Skia. I went to Skia's download page and... found there is none: Skia does not make re