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Re: Please consider a more convenient versioning of your download tarball



On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 10:27:04AM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 2017-02-14 10:12 GMT+01:00 Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu>:
> >
> >> As I have done some modifications of debian/*, currently not committed
> >> (it is bad :-) for the current version, I will upload this version
> >> (with my current workaround for the versioning) to experimental.
> >
> > Do you think it makes sense to upload to experimental just because of
> > some workaround which will not be needed any more after the next
> > upstream version?
> 
> I wanted to upload it to experimental due to the Stretch freeze

That's correct.

> but
> maybe it is not needed and an upload to unstable is fine as well?

Well, my point was whether there is any need to download at all only to
activate a hack around a broken versioning system that might be changed
with the next upstream version.  If that's the only change simply
waiting instead of uploading anywhere seems to be the more appropriate
way of "action".

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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