On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 09:50:56AM +0200, Jochen Friedrich wrote:
> > Debian native or not usually should not be chosen on behalf of whether
> > upstream=debian-maintainer but on whether the package is Debian
> > specific (like dpkg or mime-support) or not.[1]
> > * Debian versioning and upstream versioning is usually completely
> > unrelated.
> Yes, but then the orig.tar.gz _must_ be the last upstream stable, not a
> daily cvs snapshot as Silke did ;-)
Yes and know. ;-) Usually you use last upstream stable but it is
basically the maintainer's call.
If CVS is just stable with bugfixes[1] there is no problem at all, or
if if we are just at the beginning of a Debian release cycle in can
make sense to switch the Debian package to the unstable version, to
have a stable package ready when unstable becomes stable.
The maintainers just has to be careful with the Debian-version number,
coosing one that is lower than the final version, i.e
1.1.cvs1.2.20030928-1 which is greater than 1.1 and lower than 1.2.
cu andreas
[1] Check e.g. inn2.
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