Package: qa.debian.org Severity: wishlist Hi,
I have made it a custom for many years to immediately create a new changelog entry right after uploading and tagging a new version of any package, for example: aide (0.16-4.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium * NOT YET RELEASED -- Marc Haber <mh+debian-packa...@zugschlus.de> Fri, 17 Aug 2018 19:51:16 +0200 Please note the ".0" suffix to the version number that was just uploaded to avoid "using" a new version number. I only use the new version number right before the upload so that I can build test versions of the package without "burning" a new number. Please also note the UNRELEASED distribution and the NOT YET RELEASED changelog entry which will stay the top changelog entry until the package is eventually uploaded. vcswatch makes this "VCS has unreleased changes", which is correct. The tracker, however, makes this "A new version is available int the VCS" which is not the case. I don't have the slightest idea about how to make this any way less ambiguous, but I would prefer that the tracker would stop advertising a new version as being "available" when this is clearly marked as unreleased work. I could work in a branch, but that would mean additional rules for team maintained packages which I'd rather avoid. I mean, there are valid reasons, for example an upload held back due to an ongoing library transition, for not immediately uploading any new commit to a master branch in git. For me, the hint given in the tracker is kind of useless if it's always there. How about only showing it when the new commits do have a certain age such as a month? Greetings Marc -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.18.1-zgws1 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
