[bt-devel] Bibletime 1.7 Final

[Frank]

Jonathan Marsden wrote:
> I'm the only one doing Ubuntu packages of BT at the moment that I know
> of, so I'm guessing this is directed at me... BTW, if you'd put
> "package" or "Ubuntu" in the subject line, I'd probably have spotted it
> and responded earlier :)
>   

Sorry.  Didn't think...  :@(

> The Crosswire packaging team is in some mild disarray after missing an
> important deadline for Ubuntu Jaunty... but that's another story.
>
> Also, I actually packaged BT 1.7 on the day it was released, 2009-02-07,
> but then ran into a package versioning mistake in my earlier packages
> which means the Ubuntu LaunchPad system would not accept my upload of
> that 1.7 package (it thinks that the 1.7rc1 package is newer!).
>   

Oh, the wonders of technology!  :@)

> Today, I packaged up BT 2.0alpha1 for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid, and that
> package is now uploaded to my PPA, and being built there as I type.
> Assuming those builds succeed (!), you should be able to grab it from my
> PPA in a few minutes.  Since you probably already set your machine up to
> look for packages in my PPA, you probably just need to do
>
>   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> If you really do need a BT 1.7 final package, rather than a 2.0 alpha1
> package, let me know and I'll try (again) to work around the "1.7rc1 is
> greater than 1.7" thing, possibly by creating a BT 1.7.0 package... or
> else I'll just have to get the 1.7 package to you some other way.
>
> Jonathan
>   
I just got the upgrade.  Haven't played with it much yet but it looks great!

Thanks for all your hard work and to those upstream, too! :@)

-- 
Blessings

Frank