Debian Bug report logs - #768308
chicken-bin: Please, ship CHICKEN 4.9.0.1, not CHICKEN 4.9.0

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <mario.goulart@gmail.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: chicken-bin: Please, ship CHICKEN 4.9.0.1, not CHICKEN 4.9.0

Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 09:31:50 -0200

Package: chicken-bin
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Please, consider shipping version 4.9.0.1, _not_ 4.9.0.

Version 4.9.0 was released with a mistake in the version number.
C_MINOR_VERSION is defined as 8 in CHICKEN 4.9.0.  It should be 9.

As a consequence of this bug, CHICKEN 4.9.0 registers a `chicken-4.8'
feature (should be `chicken-4.9').  Features are used by CHICKEN
applications and libraries to cond-expand against (similar to
conditionals in the C preprocessor).  So, applications that rely on
the `chicken-4.9' feature won't behave as expected on CHICKEN 4.9.0.

CHICKEN 4.9.0.1 has been released to fix that bug, specifically.  So,
please consider shipping CHICKEN 4.9.0.1, _not_ 4.9.0.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Message #12 received at 768308-submitter@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@debian.org>

To: 768308-submitter@bugs.debian.org

Subject: chicken-bin: Fix C_MINOR_VERSION

Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:54:08 +0100

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Hi,

the changes from 4.9.0 to 4.9.0.1 are way to huge to update to the new
upstream version for Debian Jessie (diff has O(700000) lines).

The attached patch only backports the C_MINOR_VERSION change as
requested by this bug report. Is there another change which need to be
included?

Best wishes, 
 Johann Felix

--
Johann Felix Soden, johfel@debian.org, DD

[fix_c_minor_version.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

Message #19 received at 768308@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mario Domenech Goulart <mario.goulart@gmail.com>

To: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@debian.org>

Cc: 768308-quiet@bugs.debian.org, 768308-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 768308@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#768308: chicken-bin: Fix C_MINOR_VERSION

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 17:40:30 +0000

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Hi Johann,

On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 14:54:08 +0100 Johann Felix Soden <johfel@debian.org> wrote:

> the changes from 4.9.0 to 4.9.0.1 are way to huge to update to the new
> upstream version for Debian Jessie (diff has O(700000) lines).
>
> The attached patch only backports the C_MINOR_VERSION change as
> requested by this bug report. Is there another change which need to be
> included?

Thanks for looking at this issue.

Unfortunately, I'm afraid your patch is not the best approach to handle
the problem.  Touching chicken.h would cause the build system to rebuild
practically the whole CHICKEN core software, and that would generate the
gigantic diff you see.  The 4.9.0.1 release does basically that, but
provides the C code generated by the bootstrap process.

Let me provide some more context.  CHICKEN is a self-hosting Scheme->C
compiler.  It is mostly written in Scheme, but some parts are in C
(runtime.c and chicken.h).  To build CHICKEN out of sources from the git
repository, you have to go through a bootstrap process, that is, you
need CHICKEN to build CHICKEN.

To make the life of users and packagers easier, we provide source
tarballs with code that has already gone through the bootstrap process.
Those source tarballs contain the source code from the git repository
plus the C code generated by the bootstrap process (i.e., the output of
the compilation of the compiler source, in Scheme, to C).  Thus, to
build CHICKEN out of source tarballs, you only need a working C
toolchain and GNU make.

However, if you touch any source file (the original source, from git --
not the C source code generated by the bootstrap process), the build
system will probably try to compile that file and those that depend on
it.  That compilation step requires a working CHICKEN compiler.  If you
touch a basic file like chicken.h, a lot of files will have to go
through the bootstrap process again.  That's not desirable, since it
would require a working CHICKEN installed.

Here are the steps you can use to check the differences between 4.9.0
and 4.9.0.1:

1. $ wget http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.9.0/chicken-4.9.0.tar.gz
2. $ wget http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.9.0/chicken-4.9.0.1.tar.gz
3. $ tar xzf chicken-4.9.0.tar.gz
4. $ tar xzf chicken-4.9.0.1.tar.gz
5. $ (cd chicken-4.9.0 ; make PLATFORM=linux spotless)
6. $ (cd chicken-4.9.0.1 ; make PLATFORM=linux spotless)
7. $ diff -ur chicken-4.9.0 chicken-4.9.0.1

Steps 5 and 6 will remove the files generated by the bootstrap process.
The ones left will show the differences between the two versions.

Attached you can find the whole diff for versions 4.9.0 and 4.9.0.1
(generated by the steps [1 -- 7] above).  As you can see, the major
difference is the bump in C_MINOR_VERSION.  The other changes are
related to documentation and the addition of tests to catch that
versioning mistake.

As explained above, patching chicken.h is not the best option, since it
will require the bootstrap process if users try to build the source
tarball.  So, I strongly advice using the tarball for the 4.9.0.1
release, which can be found at
http://code.call-cc.org/releases/4.9.0/chicken-4.9.0.1.tar.gz
(SHA256 sum: 04df7c439c36fc16446bdfa186e7a70258f911d2d826b5216a8e6b1cb2aa2815).

That release fixes the versioning problem and the source code in the
tarball has been gone through the bootstrap process.

Best wishes.
Mario
-- 
http://parenteses.org/mario

[chicken-4.9.0-4.9.0.1.diff (text/x-diff, attachment)]

Message #36 received at 768308-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Davide Puricelli (evo) <evo@debian.org>

To: 768308-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#768308: fixed in chicken 4.9.0.1-1

Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:03:57 +0000

Source: chicken
Source-Version: 4.9.0.1-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
chicken, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 768308@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Davide Puricelli (evo) <evo@debian.org> (supplier of updated chicken package)

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Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 19:24:20 +0100
Source: chicken
Binary: chicken-bin libchicken7 libchicken-dev
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 4.9.0.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: high
Maintainer: Davide Puricelli (evo) <evo@debian.org>
Changed-By: Davide Puricelli (evo) <evo@debian.org>
Description:
 chicken-bin - Practical and portable Scheme system - compiler
 libchicken-dev - Practical and portable Scheme system - development
 libchicken7 - Practical and portable Scheme system - runtime
Closes: 768308
Changes:
 chicken (4.9.0.1-1) unstable; urgency=high
 .
   * New upstream version;
     fixed a wrong C_MINOR_VERSION setting; closes: #768308.
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