Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-...@web.de> writes: > If upstream == maintainer then why would there ever be an upstream > release without a debian release?
It's rare for there to be an upstream release without a Debian release, although it can happen during freezes or with frequent dev releases. It's very, very common for there to be a Debian release without an upstream release, which is more where the problem is. Going through all the normal upstream release process when there was just a minor change to the packaging files is really a waste of time, and then what happens is that there's a temptation to not fix packaging problems until one gets around to making another upstream release. I went through all this with my own packages for which I'm upstream and found that keeping the packaging separate from the upstream distribution was way more convenient and useful for me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
