On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 09:10:27PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote: > On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 08:30:30AM +1000, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: >> It also gives your eventual sponsor history for the package, >> providing more evidence as to your commitment and skills, >> especially over the long term. (Which is important, so that >> your package does not get sponsored once, then bitrot.) > Yes, I agree here, from experience. > One interesting idea was to use an NMU version scheme for unofficial > packages: > foo_1.2.3-0.1 (supposing it is 1 based) > foo_1.2.3-0.2 > foo_1.2.3-0.3 > ... > foo_1.2.4-0.1 (I guess) > foo_1.2.4-0.2 > ... > Then, I guess you should change the version number and add a changelog > entry when you're sponsored: > foo_1.2.4-1: > * Update version for upload to d.o archive, thanks Sponsor Dude > (Closes: #111111) Interesting, but I certainly wouldn't use it. There's nothing wrong with the first version into the Debian archive being -2, -3 or -4, as long as you remember to make it a full-source upload. That's certainly what we did with FreeRADIUS, since at the time upstream was releasing as -1. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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