From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4FFE9477.5070002@xenomai.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:10:15 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <4FFC89CA.70809@xenomai.org> <4FFDA171.3010201@nta-inc.net> <4FFDAF59.9010000@xenomai.org> <20120711174844.GG19565@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <4FFE1841.1070409@xenomai.org> <4FFE8B7C.6090101@antcom.de> In-Reply-To: <4FFE8B7C.6090101@antcom.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Debian packaging bug in Xenomai v2.6.1 List-Id: Discussions about the Xenomai project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Roland Stigge Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org On 07/12/2012 10:31 AM, Roland Stigge wrote: > On 07/12/2012 02:20 AM, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote: >> The problem is that we use to have files in the /usr/share/xenomai >> directory, the debian files were written with this assumption, we now no >> longer install any file in /usr/share/xenomai, and we did not change the >> debian files, simply because nobody tested the debian package >> generation, or more accurately someone did but forgot to report the bug. > > From the Debian perspective, the debian/ directory in "upstream" Xenomai > is a bit confusing. At Debian, this one is ignored anyway and replaced > with Debian's up-to-date variant. We maintain our own debian directory for convenience, because we like the idea of a self-contained package. But obviously this only makes sense if this debian directory is maintained. > > I unfortunately don't have the ressources to regularly sync/update > debian/* in the xenomai.org dev repository. I understand that. You already maintain a debian directory on your side, you have absolutely no reason to maintain the debian directory of the xenomai project. Anyway, what I would like to know if people find useful the "feature" of shipping with a debian directory. > FYI: Unfortunate coincidence that the freeze for the next Debian release > ("wheezy") was shortly before the Xenomai 2.6.1 release. So I'll be > stuck with 2.6.0 for a while now. > > Will put 2.6.1 into Debian "experimental", however, shortly. Too bad. But maybe you could say that Debian uses Xenomai 2.6, and the third version numbers are just security updates ;-) I am just half kidding, after all, the policy is that all releases in the same branch are binary compatibles. -- Gilles.