Re: [pygame] pygame 1.5.3

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Ed Boraas wrote:

>> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Pete Shinners wrote:
>>
>> >in the fastest release cycle ever, pygame-1.5.3 is now apon us.
>> >this is just another patch release like the last one, nothing major.
>> >the biggest fix is in the rect handling code. a bug was letting sneaky
>> >exceptions to sneak through.
>>
>> Anyone know anything about the Debian package? Are they usually built by
>> the Debian maintainer after new releases of Pygame? I don't want to bother
>> the maintainer for small stuff, he/she has more important things to do.
>>
>> I see that the tar.gz doesn't have the normal debian/ dir, so I can't
>> provide own Debian packages of 1.5.3 without some major RTFM. That could
>> possibly be a good idea, i.e. to get the contents of the debian/ dir and
>> add to pygame CVS, so that new deb:s could be built by anybody.
>>
>> Comments?
>
>pygame 1.5.3 is already in incoming. I generally build them as releases come
>out, but I've missed the last two point releases (1.5.[12]) due to "matters
>beyond my control" :)
>
>Also, submitting wishlist-severity bugs about new versions is definitely
>fine with me, although I am always working on it as fast as I can.

Excellent stuff, thanks a lot Ed!

>(Also note that as of pygame 1.5, the pygame packages are called
>python2.[12]-pygame, in accordance with convention.)

I saw the new naming convention today when looking for the pygame status
on debian.org, but that page does obviously not show what's in incoming,
only stable/testing/unstable.

Good news. This lifts an otherwise bad day to being "quite ok". :)

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