Unison in Fedora

[Miroslav Suchý]

Dne 7.5.2015 v 10:17 Richard W.M. Jones napsal(a):
> For this reason, Fedora packages three different Unison branches in
> separate packages:
> 
>  - unison213 (currently Unison 2.13.16)
>  - unison227 (currently Unison 2.27.57)
>  - unison240 (currently Unison 2.40.128)
>  - There was a "unison" package, but it is retired
> 
> We don't package the latest upstream (Unison 2.48.3) at all[1].
> 
> For comparison, Debian packages:
> 
>  - unison2.27.57
>  - unison2.32.52
>  - unison (which contains 2.40.x)
>  - unison-all, a meta-package, which pulls in all of the above
> 
> AFAICT Debian also does not package the latest upstream version.
> 
> So you can see that someone who needed to synchronize across Fedora
> and Debian machines would have two compatible choices:
> 
>  - Fedora unison227 <-> Debian unison2.27.57
>  - Fedora unison240 <-> Debian unison

BTW Do you talk to Debian maintainers and e.g. synchronize which next version you will be packaging so Linux word get
matrix with more compatible versions available on servers?

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Miroslav Suchy, RHCA
Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys