On 12-Dec-2008, Sandro Tosi wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 00:45, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > For some reason the repository tools didn't notify the BTS that the
> > package changelog closes this bug report.
> 
> The reason is simple: -2 has been uploaded without including -1
> changelog entry (dpkg-buildpackage -v), so nothing strange has
> happened.

Thanks, I was unaware of that option. I'll make sure to use it when
preparing source packages for upload.

> This would have been avoided if the same revision was used even in
> further modification of the same on-work package.

That unfortunately causes other problems, not least of which is
difficulty distinguishing in correspondence between packages that are
actually different but have the same version string. It's cleaner and
simpler to discuss separate uploads if they are separate in the
changelog, too.

Thanks again for the explanation.

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