[Pkg-ace-devel] Re: New ACE+TAO packages, version 5.4.2.1-2

[Konstantinos Margaritis]

Hi Thomas, Raphael (including you in the list, i don't remember if you 
are in the pkg-ace-devel list)

Sorry for the delay, terribly busy month...

Ok, I agree with Raphael that we should probably move to a dpatch 
system, though I don't have any experience with it, how do we move to 
a dpatch approach? Brian uses dpatch, but I have the impression that 
he's even more busy than I am :-)

I'd really like to incorporate Raphael's reactor separation 
implementation (congratulations by the way :-) and we still have time 
to push for a new upload before sarge, but I have to say I can't work 
as much as I would like, I also work on d-i and -like everyone else- 
also have to survive :-)

So, Raphael, do you think it is doable to go for dpatch for all 
patches (those from Thomas, you, Brian and myself) in the short 
amount of time we have (imho, almost less than a month before sarge 
freeze) and release a working version also with the reactor 
separation stuff? A short howto would be excellent...

Regards

Konstantinos

On Monday 18 October 2004 18:56, Thomas Girard wrote:
> [sending with my professional address because for an unknown reason
> I can't get this mail sent with the address I'm using usually]
>
> Hello all,
>
> I've made simple changes to the current ACE packages so that:
>
> - bug#242881 is marked as closed (it was actually fixed in
> 5.4.2.1-1). - there are no .o or empty .depend files in the *-doc
> packages. - the new bug#277052 is fixed.
>
> The new patches layout on the website is:
>
> http://thomas.g.girard.free.fr/ace/
>
> +- patches/
>
> |   +-- 5.4.2.1-1/
> |
> |   |    +-- ace_5.4.2.1-1.diff.gz: against pristine tarball
> |   |    +-- broken-out.tar.bz2: patches against pristine
> |   |    +-- patches/ : likewise
> |
> |   +-- 5.4.2.1-2/
> |
> |   |    +-- ace_5.4.2.1-2.diff.gz: against pristine tarball
> |   |    +-- broken-out.tar.bz2: patches against 5.4.2.1-1
> |   |    +-- ace_5.4.2.1-1-to-2.diff.gz: to apply against 5.4.2.1-1
> |   |    +-- patches/ : likewise
> |
> |   +-- all/ all unsorted patches
> |
> |   +-- pending/ patches not applied yet
>
> +-- packages/ last packages built for i386, right now 5.4.2.1-2
>
> To be done:
> - man pages.
> - reactor separation.
> - ciao-dance package.
> - report to ace-users ml that:
>    1. the tarball has wrong epoch stamps.
>       (this was already reported multiple times)
>    2. there are config.* files in JAWS
>    3. there are .orig files in CIAO
> - cidlc package.
> - discuss MPC license.
> - discuss 'magic perl'.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas