Hi Andreas, hi Tim, This is a fantastic thread, with constructive suggestions blossoming everywhere. Hm. Ok. Just like always in Debian Med. Anyway, here comes my attempt to contribute. [...] > > ITP bug filed and lintian warnings cleaned except for > latest-debian-changelog-entry-without-new-version. While in the first > moment I was thinking there is no need to care I now wonder whether it > might have some effect on Ubuntu / BioLinux users. If I might leave the > lower version it might happen that these users just do not "see" the new > version. The only way to fix this would be to use an epoch. In > general: If you release packages somewhere outside of Debian you are > well advised to use <version>-0<something> instead of > <version>-1<something> or also <version>~-1<something> might do to > avoid this type of complication. I wonder whether you consider this > a real problem and I should upload the package as
The current SVN changelog reads microbiomeutil (20101212-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Initial release to Debian (Closes: #711086) for what Andreas nicely crafted. My suggestion is to just slightly violate conventions and not upload a -1 to Debian but change to microbiomeutil (20101212-2) unstable; urgency=low which would not have the source tree uploaded to the servers, which again could be fixed by adding a -sa to the svn-buildpackage command. This way, we would not need to modify the epoch. We all do not like working with epochs, I presume. I volunteer "sponsoring" the upload, if you would want me to. That said, I also want to support Andreas with his suggestions on how we could have the BioLinux-early-direct submissions versions avoid such hickups. Besides what Andreas suggested, or better, giving an example for the us of the tilde he mentioned, I would also like to point to the backports.debian.org page on packaging instructions at http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index5h3 I have just went through this for BOINC, but this is something for another thread, I presume. Cheers, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-med-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/trinity-9d12fb85-ebd1-4d13-be26-a4741b9d6c5c-1370414054537@3capp-gmx-bs08
