also sprach George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net> [2006.09.21.1608 +0200]:
> That is a sponsoree job to mention to... as a maintainer note.
Agreed. Ideally, the dpkg-dev tools should be more cautious too.
> > 1.2-3~mentors.1
> > 1.2-3~mentors.2
> > 1.2-3~mentors.3
[...]
> That would cause sponsoree synchronizing problems... to delete those
> ~mentors.* suffixes in his/her/ local copy of VCS or whatever, when the
> package got uploaded and will also favour bad habits. Killing package
> history, either as a part of official debian archive or not is also bad.
I never spoke of killing, I said fusing. It's like each ~mentors.*
changelog entry is a commit to the VCS, and the fusion created just
before upload to the final archive are the release notes.
> Really there is no need for any artificial tricks here. Sponsorees
> bump up the revision when they create a new package revision, just
> like DDs do.
I only bump revisions when I upload to the Debian archive. If
I upload to my own (public) archive, I use ~unreleased.* in much the
same way.
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