Re: Changing version numbers for upload to m.d.n [ was: Re: RFS: swish++: A Simple Web Indexing System for Humans --- C++ version ]
On (21/09/06 14:29), martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach James Westby <jw+debian@jameswestby.net> [2006.09.21.1419 +0200]:
> > The convention is, I believe, that an upload to mentors.debian.net
> > does not count as a release, as anyone who downloads a package
> > from there should realise it is a work in flux and handle that
> > appropriately.
>
> What speaks against incrementing the Debian revision after every
> upload? I am much in favour of that.
>
I know that some people do not like it.
I think the reasoning is that it is the extra step for sponsors to build
with -v.
Perhaps we could have a convention that the version number is
incremented as you like, but if the sponsor requests it the maintainer
collapses the entries.
Would that be acceptable?
James
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