Il giorno ven 23 dic 2022 alle 18:46:02 +00:00:00, Ben Westover
<m...@benthetechguy.net> ha scritto:
When maintaining packages that are waiting to be sponsored, it's
generally a good idea to mark the distribution in debian/changelog as
UNRELEASED, because if it's listed as unstable, your ITP keeps getting
marked pending every time you commit, and people can get the idea
that a
release is already in Debian if it's marked unstable. In the future,
you
should mark it UNRELEASED in Salsa and unstable in Mentors, then
change
it to unstable when the package is uploaded and passes NEW.
Hi Ben, you're right and I find it annoying too, but in general I try
to do the opposite, i.e. do everything in Salsa first, and then push to
Mentors. I prefer to see the Git repo as the main place where changes
occur, the "master project", and it should never be out of date. Doing
things this way it is impossible to have a change in the package
present in Mentors that isn't also in Salsa.
Admittedly it makes a lot of sense for already uploaded packages, but
maybe not that much for ones needing a sponsor.
In any case, thanks for the suggestion. Maybe I'll put it in practice
for the next package :)
