Re: Closing bugs, incrementing release number, and uploads to mentors.debian.net

[George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>]

Quoting Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org>:

> On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:59, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> > * When fixing bugs that prevented a previous release (e.g. one made to
> >  mentors.debian.net) from making it into Debian (e.g. because the
> >  sponsor requires further changes), recommended practice is to
> >  increment the release number and make a new changelog entry, to
> >  easily distinguish from any existing release.
>
> This is only required by *SOME* sponsors, and I absolutely *DO NOT
> WANT* this from my sponsorees; so please stop (target is everyone)
> spread mis-information to people approaching Debian since few time,
> like it's a "project requirement" when it is not.

Sandro ;-)

My context analyzer claims [1] that what Ben wrote was more like  
question (though the question mark and interrogative form were  
missing;-), rather than a ironed rule.

Should we leave that to the sponsoree's discretion, and live in peace?  
;-) Does anybody see any flaws with that?

[1] citing him: "As I understand it..."