Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.15 Severity: important Tags: patch
As I understand the current Release Team practices (in X-Debbugs-CC), uploads to non-unstable/experimental suites should nowadays rather use the codenames (wheezy, wheezy-proposed-updates, wheezy-security or wheezy-lts) instead of suites (oldstable, oldstable-proposed-updates, oldstable-security or oldstable-lts). Although both styles work, using the codenames avoids race-conditions in times around new stable releases, and are less confusing. This could be a possible diff: --- devref.orig.txt 2015-08-21 22:49:46.985614431 +0200 +++ devref.new.txt 2015-08-21 22:58:15.226984105 +0200 @@ -2209,9 +2209,10 @@ from the first line of the debian/changelog file and places it in the Distribution field of the .changes file. - There are several possible values for this field: stable, - unstable, testing-proposed-updates and experimental. Normally, - packages are uploaded into unstable. + Packages are normally uploaded into unstable. Uploads to unstable or + experimental should use these suite names in the changelog entry; + uploads for other supported suites should use the suite codenames, + as they avoid any ambiguity. Actually, there are other possible distributions: codename -security, but read Section 5.8.5, “Handling security-related Cheers, OdyX