On Thursday 21 September 2006 17:21, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach George Danchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.21.1608 +0200]: > > That is a sponsoree job to mention to... as a maintainer note. > > Agreed. Ideally, the dpkg-dev tools should be more cautious too. > > > > 1.2-3~mentors.1 > > > 1.2-3~mentors.2 > > > 1.2-3~mentors.3 > > [...] > > > That would cause sponsoree synchronizing problems... to delete those > > ~mentors.* suffixes in his/her/ local copy of VCS or whatever, when the > > package got uploaded and will also favour bad habits. Killing package > > history, either as a part of official debian archive or not is also bad. > > I never spoke of killing, I said fusing. It's like each ~mentors.* > changelog entry is a commit to the VCS, and the fusion created just > before upload to the final archive are the release notes. > > > Really there is no need for any artificial tricks here. Sponsorees > > bump up the revision when they create a new package revision, just > > like DDs do. > > I only bump revisions when I upload to the Debian archive. If > I upload to my own (public) archive, I use ~unreleased.* in much the > same way.
Ah, sorry, I failed to parse your previous message correctly. Now I tend to agree with you, with one minor exception: DD uploading to the official debian archive should be much like sponsoree uploading to mentors archive wrt revision bumping. -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
