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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files |
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Wed, 11 May 2005 12:51:45 -0700 |
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On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 03:42:24PM +0200, Tomas Fasth wrote:
> Nathaniel Smith skrev:
> > So it's good if I continue to add changelog entries with my name on
> > them during release, for instance?
>
> It's not ideal, I admit that. This is because the debian files is
> Debian business, really. It's hard for a Debian package maintainer
> to maintain a package if he/she is restrained by upstream already
> providing a debian folder and use dash-digit versions in unofficial
> debian package builds. It really will cause trouble for end users
> sooner or later because of the version namespace conflict and
> possible confusion about who's the actual maintainer and where to
> send bug reports.
Right, this is what I'm worried about.
> But I don't have a better solution, either, because I can never
> commit myself to a certain timeframe, especially not a tight one,
> because of my own business, my wife and kids, and also the other
> Debian packages I have to maintain (hm, just a few, really).
Nod, right, understandable.
> May I suggest a compromise? You do your releases as before. But when
> a new upload has been prepared for the Debian archive, could you
> then replace the unofficial package files with the corresponding
> official ones? Or maybe not. We could then just give the visitors a
> pointer to the official Debian archive.
>
> You still need to change your use of dash-digit debian package
> version postfixes. Really. May I suggest a change to dash-zero?
> Debian package version postfix always start at dash-one.
Sure. How does one go about doing this? My debian package-fu is not
strong.
-- Nathaniel
--
"Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself
Outside the ordinary range
Of what are called statistics."
-- Stephan Spender
- Handling the debian files (was: Re: [Monotone-devel] [Fwd: monotone_0.18-1_i386.changes ACCEPTED]), Tomas Fasth, 2005/05/07
- [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Tomas Fasth, 2005/05/08
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/05/10
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Tomas Fasth, 2005/05/10
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/05/11
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Tomas Fasth, 2005/05/11
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files,
Nathaniel Smith <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Tomas Fasth, 2005/05/11
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/05/11
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Tomas Fasth, 2005/05/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Matthew A. Nicholson, 2005/05/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Tomas Fasth, 2005/05/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Matthew A. Nicholson, 2005/05/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Nathaniel Smith, 2005/05/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] Re: Handling the debian files, Florian Weimer, 2005/05/11