Re: first questions
On Wednesday 02 May 2001 10:28, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote:
> sharkey@ale.physics.sunysb.edu writes:
> > When the upstream developer and the debian developer are the same person,
> > it still makes sense to treat the package as a non-native package if
> > there will ever be non-Debian releases.
>
> Ok, this only makes sense if (and as long as) you are both Debian
> mainainer and lead upstream developer, so let's take this as granted.
>
> In this case you *may* choose to produce maintain a deb without a
> Debian version (a "native" package). You should be aware that fixing a
> bug in debian/rules will force you to up your version number, but
> that's not so big a problem in my mind.
It doesn't require a version change.
I recently fixed a packaging problem with Bonnie++ version 1.00b (for which I
am both upstream and Debian maintainer) as 1.00b-1. Next version will be
1.00c!
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