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Re: [ITP] gnucap-2009.12.07-1


On Mar 17 02:17, Peter Li wrote:
> On 3/17/2011 2:07 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Packaging looks good.
> Great!
> 
> >Given that this package is new anyway, there's no reason to
> >provide an old version. Therefore I only uploaded 2009.12.07-1 and
> >removed the "curr" and "prev" lines from your setup.hint.
> I believe 2009.12.07 to be quite stable, but I thought it might be
> good to include 0.35 as a backup.  In addition the 0.35 package
> includes a (still relevant) documentation PDF that is absent in the
> 2009.12.07 package.  I could try to add this PDF into 2009.12.07-2?

That would be better.  Given that you have usually only one version of a
package installed, the user would otherwise have the choice of
installing the old package and get the PDF doc, or installing the
current package and not have it.  That doesn't sound very satisfying for
a user.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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