"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <b...@iguanasuicide.net> writes: > On Thursday 28 January 2010 17:03:33 Mats Erik Andersson wrote:
>> The last upstream release was made June 2004. Just an extraordinary >> slim chance that a new release will take place in anything but a midway >> distant future. I have presently five small patches and there will be >> at least two more. Perhaps I can get upstream interested again. > If the upstream version is currently 1.2.3, and debian version is > something like 1.2.3-4, how about releasing Debian version > 1.2.4~repacked~1.2.3-1 with a new "upstream" tarball with version > 1.2.4~repacked~1.2.3. You avoid using an epoch and can continue waiting > on a real 1.2.4 from upstream. A similar strategy is to add + something to the upstream version. Such as 1.2.3+real-1 for the next version. This has the minor advantage of working even if upstream releases the next version as 1.2.3.1. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
