> On Tuesday 01 of May 2012 22:23:12 Timothy Pearson wrote: >> Are you referring to a potential 3.5.13.1 source tarball release? If >> so, >> yes, it might be a good idea to release such a point update soon. >> >> It would make everything easier for me to do that if a full patch file >> could be provided that would apply cleanly to the extracted TDE sources >> from the complete 3.5.13 tarball--this would avoid having to republish >> the >> 3.5.13 tarballs, which would add several gigabytes of files to the >> already >> strained mirror system. >> >> Tim >> > > Yes, I mean what we refer to 3.5.13.1. > > My goal was to prepare an update so that it could replace existing > packages > from 3.5.13 (not to occupy more space). So that users who install the > Trinity > according to the instructions given update automatically. I assumed then > you > can simply move the packages from my PPA to the official. Yes, this is correct. I am waiting to do so until I get an official sign-off that the new packages work better than the old ones (i.e. users are reporting that the new packages do not crash, etc.). > > In the source packages, patches have kept separately from the original > sources > (in debian/patches/bp*.diff). I was hoping they might be incorporated into > Git branch for 3.5.13. I understand that you wanted a big diff instead of > the > set of patches? Honestly I'm not sure how to do this in anything resembling a sane manner in GIT. I was considering distribution of the large patch file as an update to the existing 3.5.13 sources, but comments and discussion are definitely welcome on this subject! Tim