Hi, On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 08:36:17PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote: > Am 15.08.2017 um 02:46 schrieb Tom Marble: > > Markus Koschany <[email protected]> writes: > [...] > >>> For the latter case should we create a new, versioned package > >>> like 'clojure-snapshot' ('libclojure-snapshot-java') or some such? > >> > >> It makes sense to create a new package like libclojure-snapshot-java in > >> this case. You can also upload new snapshot versions of clojure to > >> experimental if you don't require those version for anything being in > >> unstable. In this case you could avoid some work and you wouldn't have > >> to create a new source package. > > > > I like that idea! Are there suggestions on how to maintain > > the same source package, but have two targets in changelog, > > (and the two different pristine-tar's) e.g.... ? > > 1. libclojure-java (1.8.0-3) unstable; urgency=low > > 2. libclojure-java (1.9.0~alpha17-1) experiemental; urgency=low > > I usually maintain two different Git branches, master -> unstable and > experimental -> experimental. You just have to be careful if you want to > upload the experimental branch to unstable one day. In this case all > changelog entries from unstable and experimental should be merged in > chronological order.
…which can be done with dpkg-mergechangelogs as merge driver when merting the expermental branch to master. The manpage has the necessary configuration. Cheers, -- Guido
