[Xastir] xastir in Ubuntu

[Rick Green]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Tom Russo wrote:

> I agree, but it could be a real hassle for any package maintainer to keep
> a package with CVS-head or a development snapshot --- I believe the
> development snapshots happen at least once a month these days.
> I can easily believe that it's enough work just to keep up with stable
> releases, which are much less frequent.
>
> I don't know if the ubuntu package maintainer is on this list --- as far as
> I know it isn't one of the xastir developers.
>
The maintainer is Hamish Moffatt, according to the package itself.

I found an article out on Linux.com with a HOWTO on package building, so I 
decided to teach myself how to do it by making a .deb of a more recent CVS 
version.

I thought I'd just pull in the source of the Ubuntu package, then update 
it with cvs, then re-build the package.  Sounds simple. Well, after doing 
a cvs checkout, I look in the xastir/ directory, and the Changelog has no 
notes since last November, which is when the 1.8.4 package was built. 
I've done some other poking around, and I don't find where the current 
version number is defined. WHen I run diff against the two directories, In 
acinclude.m4, I find an $Id: line that changed, with the ubuntu version 
having a 2006/02/09 date and your id 'tvrusso'.  The current -r STABLE 
lists 2007/01/12 and we7u.

I guess I'll just compile and build that and see what I get...

-- 
Rick Green

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