On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 05:53:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Yes; and semver.org is a formalized system for version numbering stuff. > If upstream has committed to it (and does not make mistakes), then the c > versions in the above example MUST (in the RFC definition of that word) > only contain bugfixes, and no interface changes. oh shiny! thanks for pointing out semver.org! > In other words, this could be a good idea provided that it's not an > automatic thing, and that the maintainer of the package manually jumps > through a few (minor) hoops to make it happen. oh wow! it never occurred to me to do this for *all* Debian packages automatically. of course such a thing would need to be enabled by the maintainers explicitly for each package. and as others have said: the packaging part should be automated, not the uploading part. (which means, there should be maintainer review inbetween.) -- cheers, Holger
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