In article <8738xju6br....@windlord.stanford.edu>, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote: >I'm still religious about using non-native packaging for my own packages >that have any conceivable use outside of Debian or derivatives, since I >find it aesthetically ugly, and therefore psychically painful, to make new >releases for the rest of the world that contain only Debian packaging >changes and therefore want the versioning space to make Debian-only >changes without making a new non-Debian release.
It's perfectly possible to release version 4.2.3 followed by 4.2.3-1 when you want to make the Debian-specific packaging change and then go back to the native 4.2.4 when you make the next not-just-Debian change. Ian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20771.42672.416170.625...@chiark.greenend.org.uk
