[SCM] supercollider/master: Fix upstream tarball download

Dan S danstowell+debmm at gmail.com
Mon Jun 25 07:25:47 UTC 2012


2012/6/25 Felipe Sateler <fsateler at debian.org>:
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On 12-06-24 at 06:23pm, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>> > On 12-06-24 at 06:14pm, fsateler at users.alioth.debian.org wrote:
>>> >>     We are using a + for the dfsg delimiter
>>> >
>>> > Why?
>>> >
>>> > This is a new upstream release, so no need to use newer-than.
>>> >
>>> > Benefit of using older-than for repackaging is that there is a
>>> > (small) chance upstream will decide to rerelease _same_ upstream
>>> > version with a cleaned up tarball.
>>>
>>> I'm not particularly attached to the + symbol. Since I was
>>> indifferent, I decided to fix rules file for the existing practice
>>> than change the practice and not touch the rules file.
>>
>> You mean practice of packages like jackd2, or...?
>
> Supercollider itself. Dan had already uploaded a +dfsg version to the
> git repository.
>
>>
>> Is it perhaps the royal "we"? ;-)
>
> Fortunately, no, at least one other was involved in the 'we' :p

Yes, it was my misunderstanding of the convention. "We" would like to
accept a change to the tilde convention, thank you very much.
I take it it's still OK to change this in git since it's unreleased.

Dan



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