Alexander Hansen wrote: > Martin Costabel wrote: >> Chupacerveza wrote: >> >>> I have a best practices question: if all I'm doing is updating the name >>> of the maintainer and some usage notes, should I bump the revision number? >>> thanks, >>> >> Yes. Anything that changes the contents of the *.deb file needs a new rev. >> >> -- >> Martin >> >> > In practice, however, we often let that slide.
Sure, I have often done this myself. But besides the change in *deb, there is another point here: I think a change in the maintainer is such an important event in the life of a package that it needs to be identifiable by version-revision. Think of the web package database, for example. To a lesser extent, this argument also holds for the usage notes, if the updating is noticeable. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
