On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<b...@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> In <7337540c0905160100g59c1a3dem9f7622da6ca42...@mail.gmail.com>, Ludovico
> Cavedon wrote:
>>I think I'll go for
>>2.2~rc3+hg365+dfsg1
>
> Just, IMO:
> I prefer 2.2~rc3+hg365~dfsg1 so that 2.2~rc3+hg365 would be greater than it.
> In this way, it would allow distribution of the same upstream without
> repacking for Debian by a non-Debian (or simply unofficial) group.

I think yours is a good point.

However, as observed Magnus:
> However, that won't work if you have already uploaded e.g. version 1.2-3 of a
> package, and then somebody files a bug that the tarball contains some
> non-free file, and you'd like to upload 1.2~dfsg-1 to fix it without waiting
> for a new upstream release.

Thanks.
Ludovico


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