[rfk-dev] i'm in my underwear at school

Ryan Finnie ryan at finnie.org
Fri Oct 26 13:17:15 PDT 2012


On 10/26/2012 12:41 PM, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Ryan Finnie <ryan at finnie.org>:
>> I'd just like to chime in and mention that when I made those few updates
>> in 2007 and released 1.7320508.406, I didn't know about a proposed 2005
>> rewrite.  It was basically just some cleanup work to get downstream
>> (Debian) packaging more easy to work with.
> 
> What the heck happened to those 2007 commits?  I can't find any dated
> that year in the repo. There's a jump from 2003 to 2011 in what I see.

Yeah, that's the other thing.  I didn't know there was a CVS repo, so
there's no actual change history between v1.4142135.406 and 1.7320508.406.

I've gone through a diff of the two versions and annotated what changed
between them.  It comes down to:

* Removed debian/ (better not to ship this upstream)
* Autogenerated changes from automake/autoconf
* Removed the "v" prefix from the autoconf config (easier for distros to
work with that way)
* Added manpage
* Shipped pre-compiled info page
* Fix line wrapping bug
* Documentation tweaks

Attached are the diff lists (but not the diffs themselves) annotating these.

RF


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### Removed debian/ directory ###
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/changelog robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/changelog
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/control robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/control
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/copyright robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/copyright
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/dirs robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/dirs
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/docs robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/docs
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/info robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/info
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/README.Debian robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/README.Debian
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/robotfindskitten.6 robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/robotfindskitten.6
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/debian/rules robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/debian/rules

### Autogenerated autoconf/automake changes ###
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/aclocal.m4 robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/aclocal.m4
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/config.guess robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/config.guess
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/config.h.in robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/config.h.in
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/config.sub robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/config.sub
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/configure robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/configure
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/depcomp robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/depcomp
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/doc/Makefile.in robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/doc/Makefile.in
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/INSTALL robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/INSTALL
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/install-sh robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/install-sh
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/ltmain.sh robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/ltmain.sh
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/Makefile.in robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/Makefile.in
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/missing robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/missing
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/mkinstalldirs robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/mkinstalldirs
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/src/Makefile.in robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/src/Makefile.in
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/stamp-h.in robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/stamp-h.in

### Actual human-like changes ###
# Version change (note removing "v" prefix):
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/configure.in robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/configure.in
# New manpage:
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/doc/robotfindskitten.6 robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/doc/robotfindskitten.6
# Add new manpage:
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/doc/Makefile.am robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/doc/Makefile.am
# Added dircategory, changed version:
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/doc/robotfindskitten.texi robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/doc/robotfindskitten.texi
# Compiled robotfindskitten.info now pre-shipped:
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/doc/robotfindskitten.info robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/doc/robotfindskitten.info
# Removed debian/ files:
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/Makefile.am robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/Makefile.am
# Documentation tweaks:
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/README robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/README
# Fix for long NKIs wrapping the terminal:
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/src/draw.h robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/src/draw.h
# Compensate for "v" version tweak (robotfindskitten.c was converted from
# CRLF to LF, hence -b):
diff -ruNb robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/src/robotfindskitten.c robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/src/robotfindskitten.c
# Documentation tweaks:
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/BUGS robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/BUGS
diff -ruN robotfindskitten-v1.4142135.406/ChangeLog robotfindskitten-1.7320508.406/ChangeLog

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