[mythtv-users] mythtv .19.1 released?

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Sat Jul 8 21:16:01 UTC 2006


On 07/08/06 12:12, Brian J. Murrell wrote:

>On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 11:25 -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
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>>Time.
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>The fixes are applied to the fixes branch as they come right?  So at any
>time aren't most recent fixes already applied just waiting for a package
>release?  Is that release not as simple as "make dist", "upload"?
>
You're right.  Isaac's making a release distribution takes very little 
(dare I say, "none") of /your/ time.  But, that's not the point.  ;)

>>Since most (all?) packagers are using 0.19-fixes,
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>Hrm.  I have my doubts about this.  I think than any packagers that know
>what they are doing know that you cannot just keep re-releasing the same
>package (i.e. as in rpm) version with newer and newer code.  Package
>users will never see an upgrade.  The version number has to increment to
>get an upgrade.  Any I'd also hazard to guess most packages are not
>"inventing" point release numbers on their own.  Any "professional"
>packager is waiting for an official "upstream" release before they
>repackage.
>
>>nyway, it's 
>>probably not that high a priority.
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>That I can't comment on.  I don't know what bug fixes are actually on
>the fixes branch and if any fix more than just a nuisance.
>

There are important bug fixes.  However, my sentance was not meant to be 
broken where you broke it.

Mike


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