[be] First bibledit 3.6 Ubuntu package is built and being tested

[Jonathan Marsden]

Teus Benschop wrote:

> I was about to release version 3.6 and have considering it since last
> week. Your message was the last push needed to make this release, so
> I've just done that.

Got it, thanks; that is definitely *more* than I asked for!

I have a first package of 3.6 done, and it builds on my local machine. 
I need to test it a bit, and add "lintian overrides" for the lack of man 
pages for the subsidiary bibledit-* binaries, then we should be set to 
attempt REVU -- or a sync into Debian experimental and then a merge from 
there into Jaunty.

Since bibledit is already in both distributions, albeit in a rather old 
version, I think the latter approach is actually the more correct one... 
I'll look into that tomorrow, God willing.  If that works, it gets 
bibledit into both distributions, although Debian Lenny is already 
frozen, so we'd not be in a Debian stable release until the *next* one.

> I remember having tried to push git tags out, and it didn't work right
> away, so I gave up, but will try the matter again to see if that can be
> done.

Great.  If you have trouble with that again, let me know the exact 
command(s) you are using to push them out, and the error messages you 
get, and I'll ask for help from more git-expert people than myself to 
see if we can find a solution.

You are clearly a *very* responsive "upstream"; thanks for making my 
life as a packager easier!

Right now bibledit-3.6-1ubuntu1~jmarsden1 is building in my PPA, so 
Ubuntu Intrepid users who want to test it out could add a line

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jmarsden/ppa/ubuntu intrepid main

to their /etc/apt/sources.list file and then try

  sudo apt-get update
  sudo apt-get install bibledit

to install it from there.  This *is* still definitely a private test 
version, so I'd not suggest this be done by anyone who can't afford any 
issues with it at all, obviously!

No promises, but... do you have good current RPM packaging for Fedora 
and CentOS already?  A quick Google search found only RPMs for bibledit 
0.6, dated 2005 :-)

Thanks,

Jonathan