ITA nasm

[Doug Henderson]

On 29 June 2017 at 09:38, Marco Atzeri  wrote:
> On 29/06/2017 17:22, Doug Henderson wrote:
>>
>> I am willing to take over maintenance of the nasm package.
>>
>> Info for current release:
>>
>> # package name
>> NAME="nasm"
>> VERSION=2.10.07
>> RELEASE=2
>
>
> are you planning to just align the x86 and x86_64 version ?
> It is worth ?
>
>>
>> # .hint generation
>> CATEGORY="Devel"
>> SUMMARY="The Netwide Assembler"
>> DESCRIPTION="NASM is a widespread, portable, very flexible and mature
>> assembler tool with support for many output formats licensed under the
>> 2-clause BSD licence."
>
>
> it  misses the info about where to download the source
>
>> I plan to package 2.13.01-0 based on the latest upstream release.
>
>
> better 2.13.01-1 as we are using "-0.x" for test pre-release when needed
>

Source and download:
# source and patch files
HOMEPAGE="http://www.nasm.us/"
SRC_URI="http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/${PV}/${P}.tar.xz"

I have changed initial release number to 1

I will keep both 32 bit and 64 bit versions at the same version to the
extent possible. I'm not sure why the current versions are at
different numbers, unless an upgrade was requested for 64 bit only.

Doug

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