Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?
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On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Santiago Vila wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > BTW: After "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." I would add:
> >
> > "You may want to use a point version number x.1 or x.5 and make it to
> > disappear from the changelog as if it were never existed, as long as it is
> > not released for stable".
>
> I think removing entries from the changelog is usually a bad thing, even
> for dot releases. Sometimes, the changelog is very useful to get some
> "background" info about the version one has installed.
We want to release hamm as soon as possible. Therefore everybody should
use the latest release of each package. If you release x, recompile it and
call it x.1, and later release x+1, I don't see why x.1 should be kept
in the changelog, being it just a recompile.
I still think that changelog is *mainly* the history of *source* changes.
If we increment it just for a recompile is because dpkg needs it to see
that a package is "newer".
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