Re: [Gnash-dev] 0.8.9 branch, commit and tag

[Sandro Santilli]

FYI: I've tagged 49fb49a as release_0_8_9_final
Guess I'll push the backport fix in the branch next.

--strk;

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:12:40AM +0200, Sandro Santilli wrote:
> I've downloaded the 0.8.9 tarball to try at figuring where to set
> a git tag and found revno.h advertising commit id "257aa1e":
> 
>  gnash-0.8.9$ cat revno.h
>  static const char* BRANCH_REVNO  = "20088";
>  static const char* BRANCH_NICK = "release_0_8_9";
>  static const char* COMMIT_ID = "257aa1e";
> 
> But reading the logs in the release_0_8_9 branch I see a subsequent
> commit "49fb49a" which fixed the version number:
> 
>  -AC_INIT(gnash, 0.8.9~rc4)
>  +AC_INIT(gnash, 0.8.9)
> 
> Now, the configure.ac in the tarball is the correct one (0.8.9) so
> the question is: why is revno.h pointing to the previous commit ?
> 
> I was thinking about starting to maintain a stable branch, which
> is the reason why I'm looking at it.
> 
> Branch release_0_8_9 contains two more commits, one fixing
> rmp packaging and another setting release date in NEWS file.
> May be worth backporting also a fix for a 0.8.9 blocker that
> resurrected [1]
> 
> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?32579
> 
> --strk;