[bt-devel] BibleTime 1.7rc1 released - PLEASE TEST - 1.7 final scheduled very soon

[Martin Gruner]

Hi Jonathan,

both points were done so without intention.

I'm uploading a bibletime-1.7.rc1.tar.gz for you, it should be there in a few 
moments.
Subsequent releases will be in .tar.gz and follow the 1.x.y scheme.

mg

On Wednesday 04 February 2009 08:51:01 Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> Martin Gruner wrote:
> > 1.7rc1 is out.
> >
> > PLEASE TEST!
> > Special attention needs to be paid to the Bookshelf Manager which is used
> > to download and install modules.
>
> Looks good here, based on my initial testing tonight; I downloaded it
> and packaged it for Ubuntu, and then installed from the package and
> tested it lightly, including some experimenting with the Bookshelf
> Manager.  No obvious bugs emerged.  This is on a Ubuntu 8.10 64bit
> (amd64) machine with dual-core CPU.
>
> A couple of minor things:
>
> (a) The move from a versioning scheme of 1.7.beta3 to 1.7rc1 (the first
> had a period between the numeric and alpha parts of the version, but the
> second does not) broke my debian/watch file -- so uscan could not tell
> me that 1.6rc1 was available, nor could it automatically grab it for me.
>  It thinks 1.7.beta3 is a higher version that 1.7rc1, basically.
>
> While I think the omission of that period is fine, making this change in
> how you label versions, while keeping the main x.y version the same, was
> unexpected.  Whatever you do, please do try to keep it consistent going
> forward if you can, so that automated systems such as uscan and the
> debian/watch file work as intended.
>
> (b) If it is not too much work, it would help me out as a packager if,
> when you release 1.7 (and future versions!) you could release the source
> code as a .tar.gz (as well as the current format of tar.bz2 if that is
> what some folks prefer).
>
> The reason for this is that .tar.gz is the form of "upstream" source
> code tarball that Debian and Ubuntu packaging expects to work with;
> anything else has to be handled specially, essentially by carefully
> repacking it into a .tar.gz form, writing a Makefile rule that does that
> repacking, and documenting that this was done.  So it is a (small)
> amount of extra work and testing to package something that is released
> as a .tar.bz2, for us.
>
> Incidentally, the current status of our BibleTime packaging is that it
> looks good, nice and clean now, and in fact is probably somewhat ahead
> of our progress with sword 1.5.11 packaging at this point; we're hoping
> to get both sword 1.5.11 and BibleTime 1.7 into Ubuntu Jaunty if we
> possibly can!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jonathan
>
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