[ITA] _autorebase

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec 17 18:01, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen writes:
> > Oh, and there's something else very important.  The new technique
> > requires the users to update setup.exe, otherwise they will get
> > problems.  We can't do much for people ignoring the "this setup.ini has
> > been created by a newer setup version" message in setup itself, but we
> > should at least announce the new setup version.
> >
> > Achim, either you just write the complete announcement for setup from
> > scratch, or you give me a piece of text to include into the announcement
> > and I write it.  Whatever you prefer.  The important thing here is to
> > urge people to upgrade.
> 
> I'll look into that
> 
> > Given that many of us are not available the next 2 or 3 weeks (e.g., me),
> > I'm wondering if we should let the new setup version sink in during that
> > time, and upgrade the packages using the new feature (_autorebase, TeX
> > Live) only in the new year, after the 6th of January when all of us will
> > be back.
> 
> Good idea.
> 
> In fact if we do that, I'd like to require either new releases for the
> packages using /etc/rebase/dynpath.d or alternatively that they get an
> additional package that drops just this file (if a full release _now_
> would be too much work) and the requisite change to setup.hint to have a
> dependency added so that this new package gets pulled in.

That should be fine, given the rather short list of affected maintainers:

  octave   Marco Atzeri
  perl     Reini Urban/Achim Gratz ?!?
  php      Yaakov Selkowitz
  python   Jason Tishler/Yaakov Selkowitz
  R        Marco Atzeri
  ruby     Yaakov Selkowitz

As for perl, are you still with us Reini?  As for python, Jason, you're
still around?


Corinna

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