Bug#917624: RFS: ncurses-hexedit/0.9.7+orig-6
[2018-12-31 09:20] Carlos Maddela <e7appew@gmail.com>
> > [ Dmitry Bogatov ]
> > Looks fine. Uploaded. But what does +orig means in version?
> >
>
> When I took over as maintainer, I wanted to know why the project's
> original tarball in Debian differed from that of the one available
> upstream. I found that they only differed in the way that the top level
> directory was named. From what I gather, this was necessary for Debian's
> earlier build system, as documented here:
> https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro. See Q&A for "do we need to
> repack the original tarball if it doesn't contains a properly named
> foo-1.0 folder?" Since, it's no longer necessary to repack the original
> tarball, I thought it would be best to revert to using the original
> upstream tarball without any changes. However, the only way I could do
> so was to upload it with a higher version number, hence the +orig. If in
> the unlikely event that a new upstream version were to be released, the
> +orig can be dropped once again.
I see. Thank you. May I suggest you to put this wonderful explanation into
`debian/README.source'. It may save trouble for future maintainer or
save you from questions from another sponsor :)
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