Re: 1.4c

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On Fri, Oct 25, 2002 at 09:38:56PM -0700, Mike Abbott wrote:
> Wesley, Frederik, and Jeff, please check that I have merged your patches
> in correctly;

Looks good.

> I did make some cosmetic changes to them but I lack the ability to test
> them on their target platforms.

It still builds on hppa & s390 when I compiled by hand there.
The test program "lookupdns" also still works.

However, I have heard that there is some difficulty with dynamic linking on
hppa, but at least it works at all! (ie: static)
The libc maintainer has told me that this is probably a bug in the toolchain
so should go away without our doing anything.

> Also, Wesley, since I know nothing about Debian, please tell me whether
> the README section on building debs should change or be deleted now that
> the debian directory is gone.

Yeah, this should be changed.

Since it is now properly in debian, I do not think any special documentation
is needed... However, if you like here is what you could include:

Debian users:
  If you run potato, please upgrade to woody.
  If you run woody, "apt-get install libst-dev" will get you v1.3.
  If you run testing/unstable, you will get the newest available version.

  If you *must* have the newest libst in woody, you may follow these
  not-recommended instructions:

    1. Add "deb-src <your-favourite-debian-mirror> unstable main" to your
       /etc/apt/sources.list
    2. apt-get update
    3. apt-get source st
    4. cd st-1.4 (or whatever version you got)
    5. debuild
    6. dpkg -i ../*.deb

Oh, btw, as I see you are already getting feedback from users of the debian
packages, I should mention that I have been mangling your version numbers.=
=20
,-)

Because 1.4a is actually OLDER than 1.4, I am calling 1.4a "1.3pre4a" this
is because it is important the version numbers increase properly. If I
called it 1.4a, it would be considered newer than 1.4 by both debian and
redhat. Hence when users upgraded, they would be downgraded. =3DD

At any rate, I have built the package and sent it into debian unstable.

You can see the status of whether or not it compiled at:
  http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=3D&pkg=3Dst
(this includes why it failed and what it said during the build)
(1.3pre4b-2 was 1.4b with the patch for hppa, and -3 for s390)

The new version is called 1.3pre4c and the autobuilders will take a few days
before trying to build it.

PS. I totally forgot it was packaged for Redhat! Hah!
    I only remembered when I read that section of the README.

PPS. I love st; such an easy package to maintain: nice and small. :-)

--=20
Wesley W. Terpstra <[email protected]>

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