Re: public-inbox in Debian

["Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>]

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Hello Eric,

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 06:57:35PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 08:12:35AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> > > Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > > I've been trying to get a new release out ASAP but there's too
> > > much left to do :<
> > > 
> > > > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1234849/accepted-public-inbox-160-1-all-source-into-unstable-unstable/
> > > 
> > > Any particular reason the package is 1.6.0-1 despite the
> > > 
> > > 	"* Include changes from upstream bugfix release 1.6.1"
> > > 
> > > change entry?  Anyways, no big deal and thanks again for all
> > > your work.
> > 
> > Funny you ask. I chose to do it that way because I expected that an
> > eventual 1.7.0 release won't include 1.6.1 as an ancestor and I thought
> > it a good idea to have my upstream branch to be fast-forward only.
> 
> Actually, I merged 1.6.1 back into the tip of whatever branch
> I was using and pushed it to master:
> 
> d49c0789d208e66121bfb68ff0c48d7612a7cd8e ("Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/lei' into eidx")
> 8862c33ae93eea1af6246cd3c7a81e0a122186bf ("Merge tag 'v1.6.1' into eidx")

Ah, so this makes it easier for me. Will fix the versioning in the next
upload.

> Btw, since there's bb928d88ed4c72241a8d76bc792cdbd798e44470
> ("www: use PublicInbox::WwwStream") sitting in the stable-1.6
> branch, would it be helpful to release v1.6.2 at some point?

I have that patch already included in 1.6.0-1. :-) So the gain of you
releasing a 1.6.2 with that patch is that it becomes more obvious that
this patch is already included in the Debian package (assuming I fix the
versioning as I intend to do). Having said that I think it's only
sensible to release 1.6.2 if 1.7.0 will take some time. Unless 1.7.0 is
utterly broken I'd prefer to package that instead of 1.6.2.

> I think 8b39c0757a7d6d62ff7f432c13ef4c497f1c804e
> ("ds: import croak properly") is worth pushing to stable-1.6,
> maybe others...

Sounds similar to the WwwStream patch. I didn't notice a breakage
though.

> Also, I'd appreciate if you or anybody else helps writing
> release notes (in the form of what's in Documentation/RelNotes/)
> since it's a bit of a drag for me.

That's understandable, I don't like writing documentation either :-) I
think I'm of no good help here, as I don't follow the development
closely and would rather consume instead of produce a release note.

Best regards
Uwe

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