Le 21 mai 07 à 14:50, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. a écrit :
Dear Debian med team and Debian Mentors,
Thanks. I am a little confused about how upstream authors are
supposed to
use the mentors archive repository server.
I wanted to avoid mentors uploading because I was under the
impression that I
had to sign everything I uploaded to mentors. The reason I did not
want to sign
my upload yet is because I am also upstream and
I don't want to release an "official" version 0.9.9 until I get
more feedback since
there are big changes and I expect to make some last improvements.
If I need to modify the orig.tar.gz I don't want to make another
version . . .
Hi,
this signing thing is just to track who uploaded what, making sure
your future sponsor will be able to be certain future updates really
come from the same person who uploaded the first version and so on.
Uploading something on mentors does not mean you are making a new
release. You should be able to updload new files with the same
version numbers on mentors (not quite sure, didn't use it recently).
Just make sure you're requesting comments, not sponsorship (RFC as
opposed to RFS).
If you want to make sure everything goes well with respect to version
numbers in case your upload inadvertently makes it to the Debian
archive, use another version number (smaller than what you want to go
in the archive eventually), such as 0.9.8a. I would expect 0.9.9~rc1
to do exactly what you want, but I'm not quite sure (whether the
~special character works in upstream version as it does in Debian
version). Once you're ready to release, upload the final files with
their final version numbers and make an RFS.
Regards, Thibaut.
