Re: RFS: roxterm (updated package for experimental)
Tony Houghton <h@realh.co.uk> writes:
> On 10/01/11 13:57, Kan-Ru Chen wrote:
...
>> Apparently only the 1.18.5-3 is currently in sid. Debdiff also
>> indicates the other entries are newly introduced.
>
> 1.18.5-3 was released chronologically after 1.19.1-1 (although that
> technically wasn't released in Debian) to backport the most important
> bugfix from 1.19.1. Is version number order more important than
> chronological order? I've got a vague memory that I might have tried
> keeping the versions in order but lintian or something complained about
> the dates being out of order but ICBW.
>
> Do you suggest I merge all the 1.19.* and 1.20.* entries? I guess I need
> to do something anyway because I've just realised that even if I don't
> merge the entries in changelog I should have used -v1.18.5-3 with
> dpkg-genchanges.
I'd like you to merge the entries. Though there is no policy on this, I
prefer that changelog is reflecting the realistic. If the version was
not released anywhere, the entries should be merged to later release.
Cheers,
Kanru
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