Re: dchanges file for non-intel archs
Richard Kettlewell writes:
>
> Bill Mitchell writes:
>
> [...]
> > For packages specific to the debian distribution or having no
> > upstream main- tainer, the debian revision number might be
> > arbitrarily set to 0 or 1.
>
> Why not simply not have a revision number at all, as with current
> practice?
I think packages that are maintained by the original maintainer should have a
revision field. I just updated my watchdog package. It is available on
tsx-11 (and maybe sunsite in the future) for non-Debian users, but I do
maintain the Debian package myself. The update was needed because the
package had no postrm file. This change is Debian related, so I move from
1.0 to 1.0-1. I don't like the idea of having to update my package version
for a change that is useless on non-Debian systems.
Michael
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Michael Meskes
Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik
RWTH-Aachen, D-52056 Aachen, Germany
email: meskes@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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