Am Donnerstag, den 06.11.2014, 17:33 +0100 schrieb Daniel Stender: > Hi, > > I'm searching a procedure for the following case: > > 1) against one my packages (it's Deap), currently a "-3" in Testing, a > RC critical bug has been filed > > 2) the fix for that bug is already available together with other further > developments as "-4" in the SVN repo, I am collecting improvements for a > future package there, > > 3) but only RC critical bug fixes are accepted into Testing now, so I > thought about creating a package "-4" which only contains the bug fix, > and push the other changes into "-5" in the changelog, that's easy, > > 4) but then, I cannot tag the "-4" anywhere because the SVN commit > history doesn't match the changelog, > > 5) I was thinking about creating a minor version number "-3.1" for the > RC bug fix, but that's preserved for NMU (Lintian complaint), which it isn't > > Any experiences how to proceed? It's going to be sponsored anyway, > asking the sponsor or the release team to just upload a NMU "-3.1"? > > Greetings, > Daniel Stender > > -- > http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=debian%40danielstender.com > GPG key: 4096R/DF5182C8 > 46CB 1CA8 9EA3 B743 7676 1DB9 15E0 9AF4 DF51 82C8 > Why not just revert your commits (by applying undoing commits) and then apply the fixes neccessary to do the RC-4?
After a upload, you can reapply them. The SVN log is not really linked to the debian/changelog. A NMU-style version would be wrong, IMHO. -- tobi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1415303945.7729.3.ca...@debian.org