Re: What to do with old bugs and package versions?
On Sun, 26 Jul 1998, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I just uploaded the "norwegian" package, as well as inorwegian and wnoregian
> created from them.
>
> Problems are:
>
> * The old "wnorwegian" package has a number of bugs. I should perhaps close
> these.
>
> * What about the version number of the norwegian, inorwegian and wnorwegian
> packages? What should be done about them? Should I just start anew with
> veresion 1.0-1, or should I continue with whatever version number from the
> old packages? These are based upon a new source, and does not keep anything
> from the old package othere than the name.
Completely new source? In that case, dump the old version numbers
completely. Does the new (upstream) source have a version number? If so,
use that, possibily using epochs so that inorwegian and wnorwegian are
still 'newer' than the old ones...
Jules
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