Le 21 mai 07 à 14:50, Rudi Cilibrasi, Ph.D. a écrit :
Dear Debian med team and Debian Mentors,Thanks. I am a little confused about how upstream authors are supposed touse the mentors archive repository server.I wanted to avoid mentors uploading because I was under the impression that I had to sign everything I uploaded to mentors. The reason I did not want to signmy upload yet is because I am also upstream andI don't want to release an "official" version 0.9.9 until I get more feedback sincethere are big changes and I expect to make some last improvements. If I need to modify the orig.tar.gz I don't want to make another version . . .
Hi,this signing thing is just to track who uploaded what, making sure your future sponsor will be able to be certain future updates really come from the same person who uploaded the first version and so on. Uploading something on mentors does not mean you are making a new release. You should be able to updload new files with the same version numbers on mentors (not quite sure, didn't use it recently). Just make sure you're requesting comments, not sponsorship (RFC as opposed to RFS).
If you want to make sure everything goes well with respect to version numbers in case your upload inadvertently makes it to the Debian archive, use another version number (smaller than what you want to go in the archive eventually), such as 0.9.8a. I would expect 0.9.9~rc1 to do exactly what you want, but I'm not quite sure (whether the ~special character works in upstream version as it does in Debian version). Once you're ready to release, upload the final files with their final version numbers and make an RFS.
Regards, Thibaut.