Nexenta Core Platform 2: OpenSolaris for human beings

Nexenta Core Platform 2: OpenSolaris for human beings

Posted May 28, 2009 23:47 UTC (Thu) by joey (subscriber, #328)
Parent article: Nexenta Core Platform 2: OpenSolaris for human beings

I was slightly suprised that nextenta is apparently using alien successfully on solaris packages, since alien's support for that is IMNSHO not very good.

But not as suprised as I was at what I found in the changelog...

alien (8.73.4) elatte; urgency=low

  * fix for sunwxvmr package

 -- Super-User <root@myhost>  Sat,  2 Feb 2008 19:51:46 -1100

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alien (8.65) elatte; urgency=low

  * SVR4 class conversion improvements

 -- Super-User <joeyh@debian.org> Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:15:51 -0700

?! That's my email address on a changelog I didn't write. And packaging as root?

Even worse is that the official 8.65 release that I made was completely different from theirs and things have diverged since but with much version number overlap.

I hope we can get this straightened out, both in the areas of Nextanta apparently needing a cluebat WRT changelogs, forking, and version numbers; and of course, merging any relevant changes into alien.

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