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Re: Deciphering versions.html



-=| gregor herrmann,  1.08.2007 12:12 |=-
> On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 10:45:45 +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> 
>>> There is a trick in the Repository column - included are only changelog
>>> blocks not containing NOT RELEASED YET and having distribution other
>>> than UNRELEASED. This way a package will not show up as ready for upload
>>> until the person working on it indicates so in the changelog.
>> So for the back-end code to catch all relevant packages for listing on 
>> versions.html, those who uploaded to the debian-perl subversion repo must 
>> have inserted NOT RELEASED YET into the changelog of the package that they 
>> uploaded?
> 
> The other way round (unless I misunderstood you):
> If the changelog contains UNRELEASED the script will ignore this
> version number. So at commit time you have to decide if the specific
> version is ready for upload (-> "unstable" or whatever) or is still
> work in progress (-> "UNRELEASED").

Exactly. The reason for skipping the UNRELEASED entries is to avoid
listing packages that are not yet ready as needing an upload.
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