Re: packages and TeXLive revisions

[Brook Milligan <brook%nmsu.edu@localhost>]

Thomas,

Thanks.

On Aug 29, 2014, at 1:48 PM, Thomas Klausner wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:02:11PM -0600, Brook Milligan wrote:
>> I notice that a number of (but I don't believe all of) the TeXLive packages, 
>> i.e., those in print/tex-* indicate a TeXLive revision either as a comment 
>> in the Makefile or as an defined Makefile variable.  I have some new 
>> packages that I wish to commit, but I am not sure what to make of the 
>> revision information.  In general, I don't seem to have any such information 
>> for these packages, so I am wondering where this comes from, what it means, 
>> and if I am missing something as I prepare these packages.
> 
> TeXLive packages usually contain files describing their content. For
> example (picked at random), tex-pst-geo contains a file
> tlpkg/tlpobj/pst-geo.tlpobj that starts with:
> 
> name pst-geo
> category Package
> revision 17751
> shortdesc Geographical Projections
> relocated 1
> longdesc pst-geo is a set of PSTricks related packages for various
> ...
> 
> 
> The 'revision' field here contains the revision you're looking for.

So should that be a comment in the Makefile or an actual defined make variable? 
 I have seen both.  (I have also seen packages with neither.)  Is this 
documented anywhere?

Cheers,
Brook