New jackd upload?

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Adrian,

|--==> On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:07:57 +0200, adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de (Adrian Knoth) said:

  AK> Hi!
  AK> I've recently been talking to upstream, the original plan to release
  AK> jackd 0.116.3 in April 2009 has been dropped and development still needs
  AK> some time.

  AK> However, the Debian project has forwarded all its patches to upstream,
  AK> jackd's svn contains all the fixes we need for our bugs. IOW, we don't
  AK> have to patch locally anymore (expect the lib64-->lib directory
  AK> renaming).

  AK> I've changed the jackd package to use the svn version, so we get our
  AK> patches back and are able to do new uploads, close our bugs, have FFADO
  AK> support and so on.

  AK> To me, it's quite a long list of fixed bugs, so I think we should
  AK> schedule an upload. Everything is in the git repo, so please check,
  AK> comment or fix. ;)

Thank you very much for the effort of pushing the patches upstream! It
is really impressive. I agree we can move on uploading this SVN
snapshot. There are only a couple of issues in the current git
repository:

1) The upstream version in debian/changelog should be 0.116.2~svn3592,
and not 0.116.2+svn3592. The "~" in place of "+" will ensure that the
packages can be upgraded to 0.116.2, once it comes out [0]. That's
because 0.1~something is considered to be a less than 0.1 by dpkg,
while 0.1+something is greater.

Even better, please name the upstream version 0.116.1+svn3592 (so .1
instead of .2), because 0.116.2 is not out yet and "~" is usually used
for backports.

2) There's a tag named "upstream/0.116.2", it should be removed and
replaced with a tag named "upstream/0.116.1+svn3592".

Ciao,

Free