A few additions to this. Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> You should only ever upload packages that you have used ‘sid’ to > successfully build and lintian check. > > For one way to do that without necessarily running ‘sid’ as your > operating system, investigate the ‘pbuilder’ package. In fact, even if you run ‘sid’ as your operating system, it's recommended to build your packages in a ‘pbuilder’ environment to discover issues with build-time dependencies. > [incrementing the Debian release number each time you make a new > release] is my chosen option and that of several others here; it > makes a clear distinction when talking about each upload that you > made. But be aware that there is disagreement on this point. Neil Williams has a good explanation of why this is a good idea <URL:http://people.debian.org/~codehelp/#reasons>. -- \ “My interest is in the future, as I am going to spend the rest | `\ of my life there.” —Charles F. Kettering | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
