On (21/09/06 10:41), George Danchev wrote: > On Thursday 21 September 2006 10:27, James Westby wrote: > > > So that I can keep the ordering before the final upload. > > > For example the version after I incorporate the changes you suggest > > > will be 6.1.4-0pre4. > > Isn't `pre' meant to be replaced by the new wave (~) change proposed to the > policy recently ?
It is possible to, and can make the version numbers a little saner. > > > It is fine to use the same version repeatedly when seeking a sponsor. > > Well, since having debian source package uploaded to mentors (or any other > public site) is certaily like you have them gone in the wild; and there > easily might be people who download the source package from there, build it > themselves and install it, and they certainly what to have any new version > either from these unofficial locations or from the debian official archive. > So versioning is a good thing[tm] to keep all participants happy ;-) > The convention is, I believe, that an upload to mentors.debian.net does not count as a release, as anyone who downloads a package from there should realise it is a work in flux and handle that appropriately. If people are not happy with that convention then we should all move to this method. I am not a sponsor, but my guess is that the list of things a sponsor has to do is long enough, without having to re-version the package and check that it follows through correctly. Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Any sponsors? James -- James Westby -- GPG Key ID: B577FE13 -- http://jameswestby.net/ seccure key - (3+)k7|M*edCX/.A:n*N!>|&7U.L#9E)Tu)T0>AM - secp256r1/nistp256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
