On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 10:12:03PM +0100, Andreas Hoenen wrote: > > I don't know if there's anything on mentors.d.o that stops you from > > doing this, but I'd personally say you don't need to bump versions > > before the package actually gets into the archive, so you could just > > stick with '-1' for a Debian version, so merging the changelog entries > > should do the trick. > > I rememer a thread on this mailing list starting with [1] that discussed > the issue of reusing the same version number for different uploads to > mentors.debian.net. Most participants agreed to use a new version > number for each upload. I like this approach, as m.d.n. is public, thus > somehow the upload to m.d.n already is a form of distribution. And it > gets quite confusing if there exist different distributions with the > same version number.
What I did with the last times I was sponsored, and what I'll ask those I sponsor in the future, is to use ~n suffixes in the m.d.n uploads. Thus, if the desired debian upload is n.n-1, I'd recommend your mentors upload to be -1~1 Then, if there are modifications, work thru -1~2 ... When the final version for upload is reached, I'll merge the changelog entries and upload -1. That has the virtue of * Never releasing different versions under the same number. * Allowing *me* to easily compare and archive intermediate versions. * All mentors uploads have version numbers < than debian uploads. This, of course, is not my idea. Someone in that thread proposed it and I liked it. In the end, as that thread concluded, all this is highly a matter of sponsor taste. -- Rodrigo Gallardo GPG-Fingerprint: 7C81 E60C 442E 8FBC D975 2F49 0199 8318 ADC9 BC28
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