Re: RFS: lojban-common 1.5-2

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Mike O'Connor <stew@vireo.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 12:24:00AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> >     Package name:       lojban-common
> >     Version:            1.5-2
> 
> Do you have a good reason to make a new -2 instead of just making
> the changes in -1 since -1 hasn't yet been uploaded?

Yes: 1.5-1 *was* uploaded, to the mentors repository. That means an
unknown number have already got 1.5-1 (I even explicitly asked them to
do so), and releasing a changed package without also changing the
release number would be needlessly confusing.

In a real sense, once I upload a revision of a package to mentors.d.n
it *is* released, even if it doesn't make it into Debian. So any
further changes made should be to a subsequent release number.

There have been complaints from DDs in the past on this very forum
about re-uploading to mentors.d.n a different package with the same
release number. So I don't do that.

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Ben Finney