Re: What warrants a non-maintainer release number?
dwarf@polaris.net (Dale Scheetz) wrote on 05.01.98 in <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980105153134.10350C-100000@dwarf.polaris.net>:
> If there is a reason to upload a new .deb package then that alone is
> sufficient to require an incremented version number. Every "new" release
> of a package should come with a "new" version. Only if an md5 sum of the
> "new" package is identical to that of the old would the version remain the
> same. In that instance there is no reason to upload the new file.
Very much me too here.
Version numbers are not for the convenience of maintainers. Version
numbers are for the convenience of users.
As such, they need to change whenever the .deb changes.
MfG Kai
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