Re: Daily package builder

[Russ Allbery]

Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:

> There is now a daily builder of debian packages too, that upload
> packages into:

> http://josefsson.org/shishi/debian/

> Creating new debian packages is now just one command away for me, so
> it should be easy to produce things for Elrond (or others) to test.

> Is there some guidelines on daily build package names?  Right now I
> just use the next's release version (e.g., 0.0.25-1), which should be
> safe because we won't package official non-released shishi versions,
> but if someone installs a daily build, it will have the same name as
> the eventual official ones...  I recall some problems with the gnus
> daily build debian package names.

If you give it the same name as the eventual official ones, the package
may not be properly upgraded when the official ones come out.  For the
most part the packaging tools are fairly good about that, but I wouldn't
want to risk it.

I'd instead generate a changelog entry (dch may be helpful here) with a
version number like 0.0.025-0daily20060423.  That will ensure that the
version number for each daily build increases, but that they'll all be
less than the next official release.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>