On Sat, 03 Feb 2001, Brian May wrote: > So obviously 1 is not relevant but 2 still is. eg. consider a package > that was built against a buggy library, and the package has to be > rebuilt in order to fix the problem. No source needs to change, so > updating the version number is (IMHO) an overkill.
Well, you're right in the overkill comment, but I wonder what would be better in the long run: make it easy to detect broken packaging (everything gets dumped into the .tar.gz, which requires a full source upload in the next version or revision -- and if the maintainer doesn't notice, the next, and the next, and the next...), or keep the possibility of adding debian revisions to native packages. There are about 388 binary native packages in Debian and non-free (sid) right now, which I'd guess means no more than 300 native source packages. If the number of mispackaged uploads is as big as I've been told (about 10 per dinstall run, was it?) I'd have to say we should give priority to fixing the mess. I can think of no other way to actually detect if a package should be native or not :( So if a native package can have a debian revision, the brokenness will continue. > /home/bam/source/notmine/libpam-heimdal_1.0!1_i386.changes IMHO we should solve the dillema of adding revision numbering to .orig.tar.gz first (due to package pools), and maybe include in that solution this idea of yours. But this is somehow outside the scope of this thread. As for autobuilders, binary NMUs and NMUs, the present solution (append .0#) to the full version number (upstream + debian revision, if it exists) works and causes no source headaches for the vast majority of the packages. I don't have hard numbers, but native source packages should be less than 10% of the packages in Debian and non-free, and they are NOT among the biggest in size, either. IMHO that means we can consider the possibility of taking a non-perfect solution (forbid debian revisions to native packages) in order to fix the bigger problem. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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