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Re: New upstream packages?



On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:29:40AM +0100, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 05:32:48PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:48:02AM +0200, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> > > Like with many other things in Debian, how you do it doesn't matter as
> > > long as you don't break things.  Things that should be considered
> > > include:
> > 
> > >  - Use a -1 Debian revision number for the new upstream release.
> > 
> > >  - Preserve old changelog entries (sounds obvious, but there have been
> > >    incidents...)
> > 
> > >  - Add an entry "New upstream release" to the changelog.

> > ... and please note that "New upstream release" is not a change that closes
> > bugs other than wishlist requests *for* the new upstream release; if there
> > are changes *in* the new upstream release that fix reported bugs, please
> > enumerate those changes before closing the bugs in the changelog.

> Noted in CVS version of maint-guide.

> # Describe concisely the changes in the new upstream release that fix
>   reported bugs and close those bugs in the changelog.

> # Describe concisely the changes to the new upstream release by the
>   maintainer that fix reported bugs and close those bugs in the changelog.

Sounds good to me, thanks.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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