Re: RFS: sysinfo -- simple GNU/Linux program that displays computer/system information

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Laszlo Boszormenyi wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:18 -0600, Carlo Segre wrote:
> > This raises a question.  If I have been packaging some software for some
> > time and finally decide to get it into Debian, should I wipe out the
> > entire changelog, remove any epochs that might have been used, etc?
> >
> > My guess is yes because one would not want to imply that there were
> > previous versions in the Debian archives.  Any thoughts?
> I think the changelog is important, so do not delete it. But the epoch
> should go IMHO for the initial Debian package release, you can use
> Conflicts/Replaces to help upgrading.

how would you suggest to do that unless I change the package name?

Carlo


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