proper release of edid-decode with versioning, proper changelog etc.

[Christopher Barry]

On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 23:14:03 +0200
Tormod Volden <lists.tormod at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 3:37 PM, shirish शिरीष wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please CC me if somebody answers, thank you.
>>
>> I filed a bug to update edid-decode in debian. See
>> https://bugs.debian.org/839152
>>
>> The answer I was given by the maintainer is as follows -
>>
>> <andrew>I'm not sure putting git-generated ChangeLog is in any way
>> beneficial to the users. I think it's better to talk to upstream to
>> convince them to
>> do proper releases and release notes/changelogs. </andrew>  
>
>edid-decode is a developer tool that works standalone without
>dependencies (or reverse ones) and wouldn't benefit much from proper
>releases. As you can see in the changelog, changes are very
>incremental and there are likely no reason to keep "users" at a
>certain version instead of just using the latest code. Releases could
>nudge downstream packagers to update their packages though...
>
>The Debian maintainer should just make a snapshot release from time to
>time, and whenever the code hasn't been worked on for a while, is
>probably a good time to pick.

Or, that'd be the right time for devs to create a git tag named the
incremented version at that working state.

checkout in-between tags, and you're on your own.

>
>The git log is in the case of edid-decode a pretty good changelog. I
>don't think anybody cares enough to spend time on making a shorter
>version.
>
>I don't know why the Debian maintainer refuses to add a git log, which
>would be better than nothing. Maybe he is overloaded (60+ packages)
>and focuses on more critical packages. Luckily, it is easy to
>contribute to Debian. If you attach a debdiff or patch to your bug
>report, he would be pretty stubborn to not accept it.
>
>Of course, I am sure anyone is welcome to prepare an x.org edid-decode
>release too :)
>
>>
>> From the nature of the git page, it's not easy to have any idea as to
>> when there is possibility of having a versioning and a proper release
>> as such.  
>
>I think edid-decode never had a version or release and there is no
>plan for it, although I can't speak for the developers.
>
>Regards,
>Tormod


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Regards,
Christopher Barry