[OSM-dev] MoNav 0.3 Released

[David Paleino]

On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:49:24 +0200, Christian Vetter wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 4:35 PM, David Paleino <dapal at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 16:16:22 +0200, Christian Vetter wrote:
> > Where did the source code go?
> 
> Were are currently switching from SVN to Mercurial, you might just
> have visited the site at the wrong moment.

Ah! :)

> > Also, would you please stop distributing unofficial .deb packages? MoNav is
> > already in Debian [1], and will be synced in Ubuntu as soon as they release
> > Natty (i.e. really soon now).
> > I'd really hate receiving bugs from users with such versions installed :)
> 
> The map packages we offer will not work for 0.2, therefore it seemed
> to us as if this would be the best solution for people who just want
> to try it out now ( and not want to wait >6 months ). If you can offer
> a better solution it would be greatly appreciated.

I'm not saying you can't offer .deb packages on your site. I'm saying that it
would be best if you offered the same packages we're offering officially.

That is, Debian sid always has the latest version of $software (apart from when
Debian is frozen, but then we can agree that I upload packages to
experimental at that time, or kinda). So you could just mirror those packages.

If it happens that Ubuntu packages must diverge from Debian, I usually take
care of Ubuntu as well. So you could just mirror Ubuntu packages too.

As you see, the solution is "mirror". And if you release source tarballs,
maintainers can do their job more effectively :)

> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Kevin Peat <kevin at kevinpeat.com> wrote:
> > So if I want to use the latest version of something I have to wait for Mark
> > Shuttleworth & Co. to package it up for me and then do a complete
> > distribution upgrade to get it. I don't think so.
> >
> > Thanks Christian for doing a good job.
> 
> Actually it is Christoph Eckert[1] who deserves all the credit for
> building binaries and map packages.

I find map packages useful too, btw :)

Thanks,
David

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