[Debian-med-packaging] Next upload from release-3.20 branch

Mathieu Malaterre mathieu.malaterre at gmail.com
Tue May 22 07:04:20 UTC 2012


On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Steve M. Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> I see you've been closing the gcc 4.7 bugs with a couple of discrete
> patches.  Upstream is also collecting patches to 3.20 in a
> "release-3.20" branch.  This branch already contains all the changes
> in ftbfs-gcc-4.7.diff and much more.
>
> In the spirit of avoiding duplicate work, I propose we follow the
> upstream release branch for further releases.  My idea is to create
> new date-based upstream releases straight from git, similar to what I
> do for gccxml.  I suggest to version them as "3.20.1+git20120521" as
> this is a successor to 3.20.1 and a predecessor to 3.20.2 should
> upstream ever release one.
>
> Thoughts?

If you really want to know: I wished I knew !
Thanks very much for pointing this out, this really is the way to go.
I was getting annoyed with solving one compilation error at a time.

-- 
Mathieu



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