Re: [HTCondor-users] Issues with .deb packages

[Steffen Grunewald <Steffen.Grunewald@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 03:54:41PM -0600, Jaime Frey wrote:
> 
> On Dec 11, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Brian Candler <B.Candler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 02:38:04PM +0100, Rob de Graaf wrote:
> >> I have had the same issues with the Squeeze packages for a while
> >> now. Previous versions have been built with uid 1004 or 1006.
> > 
> > Thanks, glad it's not just me.
> > 
> > If we had the .src packages then we could try to fix them, but the repo
> > doesn't include src.
> > 
> > Actually that's another minor niggle. Because there are no src packages,
> > you also get bitten by this bug if you use add-apt-repository:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/987264
> 
> 
> The Debian packages we build can certainly use some improvements.
> 
> Have you looked at the Condor package in the official Debian sid and wheezy repositories? They're missing a few of the features available in the Debian packages we offer directly, but they're properly formatted Debian packages.
> 
> As developer time permits, we'd like to have the two set of packages converge.

At the moment, different schemes of version/build numbering are pretty in the way:
condor-7.8.6-73238-deb_6.0_amd64.deb vs condor_7.8.2~dfsg.1-1+deb7u1_amd64.deb

Even with identical Condor versions, it's hard to prefer the Wheezy native Debian
one over the Squeeze package I have to keep for my older machines.

S

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