Hi Balint, Thanks for bringing up that topic!
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 01:48:42AM +0100, Bálint Réczey wrote: > Hi, > > Since I made mistakes in setting the package version in DLA texts (and > I'm not alone ;-)) I came up with the attached patch which makes > gen-DLA and guess the proper one. > > If both teams like it I'll push it to the repo. I can only speak for myself: I would rather not see that patch/automatism applied for mainly two reasons: First, we prepare DSA's in advance, the usual procedure and only once the package would be dak install'ed in to the archive it appears in the Sources.gz. The second reason is: at least for the suites which the security team takes care, there are as well updates via point releases and appearing in the main repository. Now that I'm writing, I can think of some corner cases (where e.g. there is a major version bump, and we cannot just do previous version + 1). For those two reasons I would rather just say to have a note in the DLA preparation notes to mention the epochs. I may speak for myself alone, but given for us there are embargoed queues on security-master, I would rather have to specify a version explicitly when I parepare a DSA. Regards, Salvatore
