Warren Turkal wrote: > You have convinced me, I will reroll the packages at version > 3.6.2-beta6~pre1-1 so that the original source is uploaded as well. The > current version scheme I used doesn't allow a proper -1 release. Or do you > have a suggestion?
I'm not quite sure whether you want the "pre1" to be part of the upstream version or of the Debian revision versioning system. Assuming that the upstream version is 3.6.2-beta6, I'd suggest the following scheme: Packages that you distribute unofficially: 3.6.2~beta6-1~pre1 (then 3.6.2~beta6-1~pre2, etc.) Eventual package for upload to Debian: 3.6.2~beta6-1 Note the use of a ~ in the upstream version (3.6.2~beta6). Otherwise, 3.6.2-beta6 is greater than the eventual release version 3.6.2. Setting the Debian revision to 1~pre1 lets you make the eventual release targeted to Debian experimental (or to unstable, post-Etch release) be version 3.6.2~beta6-1. Alternatively you could just release unofficial 3.6.2~beta6-1 packages now, and have the final version uploaded to Debian be 3.6.2~beta6-4 (or just whatever the Debian revision happens to be by then). All that's necessary is to remind your sponsor to build with the -sa option to dpkg-buildpackage, to ensure that the orig.tar.gz will get uploaded. Some people are a bit insistent about always wanting the first Debian upload of a sponsored package to be <upstream-version>-1, but I'm not one of them ;-) One cautionary note: If you go with 3.6.2~beta6 for an upstream version, your build directory will be named netcdf-3.6.2~beta6. I remember that some libtool versions don't like directory names that include tildes [0] ... might that be a problem? If this is so, it could be necessary to re-libtoolize the source with Debian's libtool [1,2]. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00825.html [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00828.html [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/09/msg00830.html best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
