On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:38:24PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Is this so very different from what people do? Some times I do > not package every upstream version, if they are coming in rapid > succession, or if I find some version unfit for Debian -- but in any > case, the majority of the time I want to package the very latest > upstream version.
The difference is having a get-orig-source that works for the majority case (I want to package the very latest), instead of working for all cases (I want to package upstream version $x, which may or may not be the latest). I don't see a good way to fit uupdate in with VCS-based packaging, so at some point you have to manually increment the version number in debian/changelog to point to the new upstream version you want, yes? In that case, it makes sense to me to do this once, then use the changelog information to pull in the correct upstream tarball via the get-orig-source target. (N.B.: I say "it makes sense to me", but in practice the packages I've inherited hardcode the version to pull in debian/rules rather than parsing the changelog. I consider this a minor bug that I just haven't gotten around to fixing.) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
