Re: GNUmed (-client/-server): new upstream available

Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> Wed, 25 Sep 2024 21:15:13 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.medical
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Hi Karsten,

Karsten Hilbert, on 2024-09-25:
> > Thanks, it looks like there are no changes too involved.  I saw
> > in the gnumed packages extensive logic to deal with various
> > issues and dispatch files in several locations and documentation
> > packages, but it seems most of the heavy lifting is already
> > done.
> 
> It should be. Andreas had been packaging GNUmed for the last
> ten years or so. Off the top of my head I don't recall
> changes that would ask for a change in packaging
> infrastructure, this being a maintenance release.
> 
> > > 	https://www.gnumed.de/downloads/client/1.8/
> >
> > I could get gnumed-client 1.8.19, no problem so far.
> >
> > > 	https://www.gnumed.de/downloads/server/v22
> >
> > I'm a bit confused by the gnumed-server 22.28 refresh I see on
> > your web page.  Is the 22.28 source code from January already in
> > sid sufficient, or are there substancial changes?
> >
> > (I'm just checking I'm not assuming wrongly.  With #1082672 and
> > the changelog only covering gnumed-client, I'd suppose only the
> > client is needed.  But if not, a server version bump to 22.29
> > would have been less confusing and would have had a chance to be
> > caught by our uscan tool.)
> 
> I should have been more precise.
> 
> 1) yes, the existing 22.28 gnumed-server package _should_
>    suffice because there are no semantic changes
> 
> 2) however, there might be code cleanup in gnumed-common code
>    which would also "affect" the -server package
> 
> 3) yes it would have been less ambigous to bump the version
> 
> Theoretically, only the client is needed.
> 
> I'll upload 22.29 for good measure ;-)
> 
> Nevertheless, for the record: any 1.8.19 client will work
> just fine with a 22.28 database, old or new...

Great, thank you for the clarifications!  I'll focus on the
client, and gnumed-server 22.29 will be captured by uscan in
good time when it's out.

Have a nice day,  :)
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