Re: Modernizing the upstream tarball without version number change
On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Christoph Biedl wrote:
> * Fake a new upstream version number, like foo_1.0a.orig.tar.xz.
> Yes, it's faking. Using "+repack" is more obvious but still means
> this gets carried into the Debian version number.
This is the recommended way of doing things, yes.
> * Switch upstream tarball compression. This works, I found an upload[3]
> where -2 switched from .gz to .xz. Still rather a hack[4], and if this
> means going away from xz to something older, it feels wrong.
This is going to get people wondering what you were up to. Don't do it.
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Henrique Holschuh
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