On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: > I have a problem. The Webmin distribution consists of various modules. > It has periodic numbered releases. It also has unnumbered updates of > individual modules between releases for bug fixes etc. What do I do? > > 1. Don't package the updates > > 2. add updates to both the debianized source and orig.tar.gz. reupload > the orig.tar.gz with -sa > > 3. add updates to the debianized source but not the orig.tar.gz > > 4. Treat each module as an individual upstream source and update each one > independently. > > 5. Invent my own versioning scheme
How are the module updates distributed? If they are in a single tarball, I would create two source packages, webmin and webmin-modules, and give the latter a date-oriented versioning scheme. Better yet, get upstream to version them. Releases should have versions, especially in the case of security-sensitive software. If the modules are all distributed individually, you might want to merge them into a single source package, but unless there are an excessive number of them, I would avoid this, as it would keep users from verifying the checksums of the .orig.tar.gz (assuming they are available). -- - mdz
