Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes, but that's mainly useful for the maintainer and it's easily > handled with something like CVS.
Of course, people doing NMUs and/or dealing with other arch's may not have access to the maintainer's CVS repository, so it might be useful to them. I would guess there are relatively few packages in the archive that haven't been NMU'd at some point. > It's not strictly necessary for a source package. Unless the > upstream maintainer were actively looking into our source packages. Is there some problem with having this flexibility? I haven't seen anything that would make it appear mandatory that you take advantage of it---so where's the problem? Mike.
