Re: Proposed MBF: Debian upstream version higher than watch file-reported upstream version
Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Sunday 17 February 2008 15:41, Raphael Geissert wrote:
>>
>> Please note that this situation often occurs when the maintainer didn't
>> make the watch file strip some +VCSrevNNNNN that was added to the Debian
>> Version.
>>
>> If nobody objects I'll start filling (in an automated way since there are
>> no false positives) reports on the 307 source packages which report a
>> Debian upstream version higher than Upstream version by the watch file.
>
> I disagree. You list my package:
>
> Scott Kitterman <scott@kitterman.com>
> pysubnettree
>
> The reason this package is in the state it's in is that upstream uploaded
> a new version of the package without changing the released version number
> so a
> fake version number was needed. While suboptimal, there is no bug in the
> watch file.
If Debian's 0.11+1-1 is upstream's 0.11 why not just strip the '+1' using
dversionmangle?
That's in my POV the bug.
>
> While this is no doubt a rare condition, I believe that your assertion
> that there are no false positives is incorrect.
>
> Scott K
Cheers,
Raphael
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