Re: Advice needed on changing upstream source.

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> 
> > I have a problem.  The Webmin distribution consists of various modules.
> > It has periodic numbered releases.  It also has unnumbered updates of
> > individual modules between releases for bug fixes etc.  What do I do?
> > 
> > 2.  add updates to both the debianized source and orig.tar.gz.  reupload
> >     the orig.tar.gz with -sa

With pools, you should no longer do this.

> How are the module updates distributed?  If they are in a single tarball, I
> would create two source packages, webmin and webmin-modules, and give the
> latter a date-oriented versioning scheme. 

That's what I would do.  Take the lastest date of any of the
modules and use that as the version number:

 webmin-modules_0.20010409-1.deb

Peter