[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Is there some guideline saying that native packages should be avoided?



Il giorno mer, 01/03/2006 alle 09.54 +0200, Panu Kalliokoski ha scritto:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 08:57:07PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > > I would like to ask whether there really is such a guideline, and if so,
> > > which are the technical / political reasons that lead to it.
> > a) If there is a bug in the packaging, it can be fixed without uploading
> > a new upstream source tarball. Assuming upstream version is 1.2, the
> > first Debian version would be 1.2-1, and the fixed one would be 1.2-2.
> > The .orig.tar.gz file would be the same for 1.2-1 and 1.2-2.
> 
> What benefit does this have in addition to bandwidth savings?

That your fellow DD can make an NMU without bumping the upstream version
number (or, even worse, using epochs.)

federico

-- 
Federico Di Gregorio                         http://people.initd.org/fog
Debian GNU/Linux Developer                                fog@debian.org
INIT.D Developer                                           fog@initd.org
  Qu'est ce que la folie? Juste un sentiment de liberté si
   fort qu'on en oublie ce qui nous rattache au monde... -- J. de Loctra

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: Questa parte del messaggio =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E8?= firmata


Reply to: