On Thursday 21 September 2006 14:29, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.21.1419 +0200]: > > The convention is, I believe, that an upload to mentors.debian.net > > does not count as a release, as anyone who downloads a package > > from there should realise it is a work in flux and handle that > > appropriately. > > What speaks against incrementing the Debian revision after every > upload? I am much in favour of that.
Seconded. Definitely seconded. But many people seem to think that revision "-1" needs to be the first revision to go into Debian. That makes sponsoring hard sometimes because you never know which revision of "-1" you are currently talking about. Other people suggested a revision <1. We could even use "~". But I'm a fan of having -1, -2, -3, -4, -5 and -6 until the sponsor thinks the package is okay and start with -6 in Debian then. I'm deeply confused if I see two different uploads anywhere (be it on mentors.debian.net or anywhere else) carrying the same revision number. Usually I refuse to sponsor such packages. It's not part of the Debian Reference yet so it will probably be handled differently by different sponsor(?:ee)?s. Christoph -- ~ ~ ".signature" [Modified] 1 line --100%-- 1,48 All -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
