Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?
On 5 Jan 1998, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de> writes:
> > How about this:
> >
> > ``Whenever the source package is changed WRT to the last uploaded
> > version, its version number has to be incremented. In addition, if
> > the source package is not changed but the binary package changed
> > (because it has been recompiled in another environment), the version
> > number has to be incremented too (this is, the source package has
> > to be changed and uploaded again) to make sure dpkg/dselect recognizes
> > the changed package.''
> >
> > Any comments are welcome.
>
> Looks good to me.
>
I'm a bit confused by the context of these comments. What is being solved
here?
It was my understanding that the only time it is necessary to upload a new
source package was when the upstream source changed. All debian changes
are reflected in the diff file produced by dpkg-buildpackage. Any changes
to the debianized source (even a simple change in the dependencies) should
create a new and unique version of the .deb .changes .dsc and .diff files,
none of which requires either changing or uploading source files.
What am I missing here?
Waiting is,
Dwarf
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