Re: gEDA-user: gEDA/gaf devel snapshot 1.5.4-20090830 - fedoratestpackages

[Wojciech Kazubski <wk0@xxxxx>]

> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Wojciech Kazubski<wk0@xxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Why libgeda and libgeda-devel packages have old style version number (20090830) instead of new 1.5.4?
> >
> > Wojciech
> >
> 
> I did a mistake in the past and now I'm paying the price :)
> 
> Well the mistake was that before gEDA's stable release was made
> public, gEDA snapshots are versioned as their date of release. For
> Fedora packages, I opted for the same style, instead of 0.20090830 i.e
> 0.20090830 < 20090830
> 
> But since I didn't do it, now with the new gEDA versions 1.*
> 20090830 > 1*
> 
> which means YUM will not update to the stable release.
> 
> This is case one.
> 
> Case two is geda-* subpackages are bundled into a big tarball with a
> new name "gEDA-gaf". That said, gEDA-gaf sub packages should
> replace(obsoletes) all the current fedora packages flawlessly. My new
> set of gEDA-gaf packages does this job and at the same time opt for
> the new version naming 1.*. But namings for libgeda and libgeda-devel
> remained the same.
> 
> I have the intention to update the fedora stable repositories (F-10
> and F-11) when 1.6 comes out (assuming gEDA-gaf passes fedora package
> review). This is a very delicate matter and I'm not taking the risks
> to create a RPM dependency help when the user will do "yum update".
> 
> Hence, I kept the old version naming for libgeda and libgeda-devel so
> that 20081230 < 20090830 for example. At least for now. Once gEDA-gaf
> fedora packages obsoletes the fedora geda-* packages, I will use a new
> Epoch for libgeda and libgeda-devel so that both will be versionned to
> 1.* later on.
> 
> I want to do things step by step and avoid breakage at all cost which
> might eat my time.
> 
> I hope I answered you.
> 
> Chitlesh
> 
OK. I understand this.

BTW, source package
http://chitlesh.fedorapeople.org/gEDA/11/gEDA-gaf-1.5.4-1.fc11.src.rpm
seems to be corrupted (probably truncated) and does not install correctly.

Wojciech



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