Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?
Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
> On 17 Dec 1997, James Troup wrote:
> [snip]
> > If the binary changes, the version number should change.
>
> Completely agreed. Everything else will only result in a big mess.
>
> I'll check our how I can make policy more clearly on this point and
> include something in the next policy weekly posting.
Of course, are you talking about the binary program, or the binary
.deb?
The binary program in question *did not change*, because its
compilation and linkage environment's (effectively) did not.
The *only* think that changed here was the dependency in the .deb.
Just a twist to consider.
Anyway, I guess I didn't mean to start a big debate---I was pretty
much convinced after Sven first mailed me that I probably ought to
have bumped the version number. I just thought the policy should also
be more explicit.
Mike.
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