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Re: Packaging exiv2 0.27



On Sunday, September 1, 2019 11:03:30 AM CDT Simon Frei wrote:
> On 01/09/2019 17:49, Steve Robbins wrote:
> > Two initial observations:
> > 
> > 1. The version string is wrong; which I just noticed thanks to Salsa's
> > lintian checks -- see the MR page referenced above
> 
> That's on purpose to the best of my understanding of the processes
> (which comes from a bit of documentation skimming and looking at history):
> I can't upload so I'd expect whoever actually does that to change the
> changelog to the appropriate version, i.a. drop the trailing ~ which as
> far as I understand is to make the unreleased version older than any
> other by default. Of course if the team (anyone in the) is willing to go
> through the sponsorship process I'd be happy to do that :)

OK.  I defer to others on the team for this, but: for a merge request, I'd 
personally prefer that the version be correct.  

 
> > 2. Suggest to enable the unit tests and run them in the build
> 
> I thought about that too, but wanted to get ahead with this change first
> before throwing another iron into the fire.

OK.  I personally wouldn't want to upload without unit tests enabled.  I take 
your point that it could be done on the main git repo after this merge.

-Steve




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