Package maintainer release procedures

[Charles S. Wilson]

Oh yeah -- I also renamed the packages from "ghostscript-6.51*" to 
"ghostscript-6.51-1*".

--Chuck

Charles S. Wilson wrote:

> Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 
> 
>>> 2) I have also seen cgf specifically request that a contributor mail 
>>> the files to him, and he has placed them on sourceware.  (Don't just 
>>> spam him with unsolicited tarballs, though -- wait for a request)
>>>
>>
>> Right.  If you give me a URL so that I can download your tar balls, I 
>> will
>> do that.
> 
> 
> 
> I've already uploaded them to sourceware -- they're in ~cwilson.  I 
> checked them out -- they look okay to me.  I converted them from .gz to 
> .bz2 to save ~1.2M on download, and I also noticed that the gs.exe 
> binary was not stripped.
> 
> However, when I unpacked and stripped the gs.exe, it didn't really 
> shrink the binary size enough to justify "re-owning" all the files in 
> the tarballs as "cwilson" vs. "alcocer".  So, I didn't adjust that.
> 
> 
>>
>> Otherwise send them to me, one per email message, binary and source.  
>> I want
>> to make sure that the installation "conforms" to our loose standards.
> 
> 
> 
> Since you expressed this interest, I didn't put the tarballs into 
> contrib/ghostscript.  Go ahead and take a look yourself, and then move 
> 'em over after.
> 
> 
>> Until I set up some kind of cgi script for submitting these things, I
>> think that I would like to be the funnel for these requests for the time
>> being.  Although any cygwin developer can substitute in a pinch.
> 
> 
> 
> --Chuck
>