Quoting Timo Röhling (2021-10-02 15:12:04) > * Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> [2021-10-02 15:03]: > >I use ~ (tilde) as delimiter when possible, to make room for an > >eventual later release with the issues fixed, without needing ugly > >versioning or being forced to wait for a later upstream release. > Has this actually ever happened? I would expect that most upstream > authors would rather create a new patch release than retroactively > change the contents of an existing one. I haven't kept track, but I seem to recall that indeed it has been of use - not because upstream did a re-release with different content (I agree that would be rare) but instead a licensing concern later resolved - i.e. an upstream pristine tarball considered DFSG-incompatible at first but later (e.g. through conversations with upstream or discussions within Debian) it turns out that indeed that very tarball does comply with DFSG. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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