missing 64bit ports (xdelta3 vs xdelta and pristine-tar)

jari jari.aalto@cante.net
Sat Jul 18 08:11:00 GMT 2015


On 2015-07-17 20:17, Achim Gratz wrote:
| jari writes:
| > All good, provided that:
| >
| >    xdelta1 => /usr/bin/xdelta   (the original)
| >    xdelta3 => /usr/bin/xdelta3 
| 
| Why?  The most current version of pristine-tar from git includes a commit
| that gets rid of the hardcoded command names.

Could you point me to it. Joey's attic Git?

| Given that it's pristine-tar that holds onto an earlier version of
| xdelta, I don't see why other users of xdelta expecting to get the
| latest version should be suffering from that.

The official setup in Debian:

    xdelta:  /usr/bin/xdelta (version 1.1.3)
    xdelta3: /usr/bin/xdelta3

I think we should ensure compatibility between operating systems by
having similar setup.

Jari



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