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commit 23da4a448537c6a6ec6a84a364a1173281398d67
Author: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
Date: Tue Aug 25 11:43:09 2015 +0900
Uploads to suites other than unstable/experimental should use codenames.
Closes: #796442
Thanks: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org>
---
debian/changelog | 2 ++
pkgs.dbk | 8 ++++----
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index d178441..0c43745 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ developers-reference (3.4.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
* Update section on debview, now in the debian-el package.
Closes: #794236, thanks to Jakub Wilk <jw...@debian.org>.
* Point Packages-arch-specific URL to cgit mirror.
+ * Uploads to suites other than unstable/experimental should use codenames.
+ Closes: #796442, thanks to Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <o...@debian.org>.
-- Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> Wed, 12 Aug 2015 19:41:44 +0900
diff --git a/pkgs.dbk b/pkgs.dbk
index 457619d..126eaac 100644
--- a/pkgs.dbk
+++ b/pkgs.dbk
@@ -285,10 +285,10 @@ The package build process extracts this information from
the first line of the
<literal>Distribution</literal> field of the <filename>.changes</filename>
file.
</para>
<para>
-There are several possible values for this field: <literal>stable</literal>,
-<literal>unstable</literal>, <literal>testing-proposed-updates</literal> and
-<literal>experimental</literal>. Normally, packages are uploaded into
-<literal>unstable</literal>.
+Packages are normally uploaded into <literal>unstable</literal>. Uploads to
+<literal>unstable</literal> or <literal>experimental</literal> should use these
+suite names in the changelog entry; uploads for other supported suites should
+use the suite codenames, as they avoid any ambiguity.
</para>
<para>
Actually, there are other possible distributions:
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