[Xapian-discuss] Re: 1.0 news, and a call for testing

[Fabrice Colin]

On 5/6/07, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 01:02:48PM +0800, Fabrice Colin wrote:
> > I have just tried the SVN 8400 snapshots and found two issues with RPM
> > packaging.
> > - omega.spec needs to be patched (see end of this email) because the source
> >  is now tarballed as xapian-omega.
>
> Applied.  I've also renamed omega.spec to xapian-omega.spec.
>
> > - shouldn't the bindings be numbered 0.9.10_svnXXX instead of
> > 0.9.10.1_svnXXX ?
>
> The idea is that we can make point releases of the bindings without
> having to release xapian-core and omega too.  It's been useful a
> couple of times I think.
>
> But actually depending on xapian-core with the same version is too
> strict in general, especially since we're hoping to make stronger ABI
> compatibility guarantees in 1.0.X.  I think I'd rather not get into how
> we want to address this right now, so I'll just bump everything in SVN
> HEAD to the mythical 0.9.99.
>
I have just tried the svn8484 snapshots and I can now confirm that
the RPMs build correctly and there is no dependency problem.

Fabrice