Bug#85270: PROPOSAL] Forbiding debian-revision field for Debian-native source packages
On Fri, 09 Feb 2001, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> I still completely fail to see why this is exactly needed. The only
> reason I can see is detecting bogus uploads where they change from
> Debian native (ie without .diff.gz) to non-native or the other way around.
>
> And guess what: katie already detects that.
Does Katie detect when a native upload is done instead of a non-native
upload, even when the upstream version is increased? If she does, we indeed
have no need for the policy/tool change. But then, why were the people in
IRC complaining?
BTW: Katie does NOT always detect uploading of non-native instead of native
on same upstream version (I thought it did detect and refuse those). I
recalled doing such an upload for qa (xpuzzles package, which was native in
5.5.2-1, uploaded as non-native in 5.5.2-2), and it was cheerfuly accepted
and installed. I suppose packages entering the pool for the first time are
not tested.
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Henrique Holschuh
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