Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is part of an email exchange Sven and I had. Simply put, I put > in a new alpha binary of dpkg-1.4.0.19 that represented nothing but a > recompile to pick up new libg++, ncurses, etc. Sven suggested that > this warranted a non-maintainer-release number, whereas I had gotten > the idea that non-maintainer-releases suggested code changes.
I think if you browse the changlogs of various package, you'll see a number with non-maintainer releases with entries like: * recompiled for libc6. So I'd say the practice, at least, is that code changes are not a necessary criteria. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .