Re: including full source code in upload

[jerome.marant@fr.thalesgroup.com (Jérôme Marant)]

Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net> writes:

> On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 09:49, Jérôme Marant wrote:
> > Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org> writes:
> > 
> > > You have to rename the original tarball to
> > > gphoto2_2.0beta3.orig.tar.gz. Note: rename, not repack.
> > 
> >   I would not recommend that you do that for the following
> >   reason : when the final release of gphoto will ge released,
> >   it will be versioned 2.0.
> >   However, dpkg considers that 2.0beta3 >> 2.0 so you will have
> >   to use an epoch to bypass this, i.e. versioning it like
> >   1:2.0.
> > 
> >   So, i'd advide that you use :
> >   gphoto2_1.99-beta3.orig.tar.gz
> > 
> >   and you won't get the epoch problem.
> 
> Good point, the problem being that 2.0beta2 is already in the archive...

  Ok, so let's call it gphoto2_2.0beta3.orig.tar.gz.

  I'd advide then, to call the stable release :
  gphoto2_2.0final.orig.tar.gz

  And the next stable version will be called:
  gphoto2_2.1.orig.tar.gz and voilà, we saved our soul.

-- 
Jérôme Marant