Re: question about increasing versionnumbers

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadentplace.org.uk>]

Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
<snip> 
> That is a matter of style.  As long as the package is non-public, you
> can call it the "initial release".  If you have published it, any
> further changes (like upgrading to a new upstream release) should get
> their own version numbers, and the old versions should be kept in the
> changelog.  Your initial Debian release should mention it is the initial
> Debian release, but it need not be the first version documented in the
> changelog.

Note that in this case dpkg-buildpackage should be called with the -v
option to specify the previous uploaded version (or 0 in this case, I
guess?), so that all new changelog entries are included in .changes. 
(I didn't know about this till tbm pointed it out to me.)

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Ben Hutchings
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