Tags/releases

[gregoa]

Following up on https://bugs.debian.org/714966 ...

Updating the hompage URL is the easy part, but I'm not sure where we can (automatically) find tarballs of new releases now. An easy solution what be to have releases/tags on github.

What do you think?

Cheers,
gregor, Debian Perl Group

[ftilmann]

Dear Gregor

I have always considered the CTAN website as the 'master' distribution
channel for latexdiff releases (www.ctan.org/latexdiff) - I have pushed
the latest release to CTAN only yesterday night, and as there is an
element of manual intervention, it might not yet be updated there yet.
But CTAN does not keep an accessible version history.

I am new to git, so have not really investigated investigated tags, but
of course I could easily learn this. However, the latexdiff in the
release is subtly different (though generated automatically from) the
latexdiff in the root of the repository.
In fact, I have been explicitly generating the different releases and
including them as (archived) sub-directories in the main repository.
So an auto-generated tar-ball of a tagged release would contain the
development version of latexdiff along with sub-directories for each
release.
From a strict versioning point of view, this is redundant, of course,
but it is a workflow that works for me, and I would only change if the
reasons are strong.

Let me know if the tar ball available from CTAN is sufficient, or
whether you would like me to create tags in spite of the points listed
above (this would take a little while as I am on holiday now, and will
be very busy on returning to work)

Cheers
Frederik

On 02/08/14 02:09, gregor herrmann wrote:

Following up on https://bugs.debian.org/714966 ...

Updating the hompage URL is the easy part, but I'm not sure where we can
(automatically) find tarballs of new releases now. An easy solution what
be to have releases/tags on github.

What do you think?

Cheers,
gregor, Debian Perl Group

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[gregoa]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 00:21:34 -0700, ftilmann wrote:

I have always considered the CTAN website as the 'master' distribution
channel for latexdiff releases (www.ctan.org/latexdiff) - I have pushed
the latest release to CTAN only yesterday night, and as there is an
element of manual intervention, it might not yet be updated there yet.

Ok, thanks for the clarification, then we will handle it this way as
well.

But CTAN does not keep an accessible version history.

And no versioned tarballs (just 'latexdiff.zip').

I am new to git, so have not really investigated investigated tags, but
of course I could easily learn this. However, the latexdiff in the
release is subtly different (though generated automatically from) the
latexdiff in the root of the repository.

I see. In this case we want to go with the release tarballs indeed.

Let me know if the tar ball available from CTAN is sufficient, or
whether you would like me to create tags in spite of the points listed
above (this would take a little while as I am on holiday now, and will
be very busy on returning to work)

Tags make sense for a git workflow in general, but for Debian we'll
need to use the releases from CTAN, so no hurry for you :)

The problem is that it's not so easy to automatically detect new
releases with Debian tools; but I've just found
http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/qa/trunk/cgi-bin/fakeupstream.cgi?view=markup
which will do this for us after someone pulls my patch on the live
machine; temporarily a copy on my server works:
http://info.comodo.priv.at/cgi-bin/fakeupstream.cgi?upstream=ctan/latexdiff

Thanks again for your explanations, and it seems there's nothing you
need to do, and we'll work out the last rough edges on the Debian
side ourselves.

Cheers,
gregor

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[gregoa]

And the patch for the redirector is already live:
https://qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/fakeupstream.cgi?upstream=ctan/latexdiff

Cheers,
gregor, closing the issue since everything's fine