Bug#796442: §5.5 Uploads to suites other than unstable/experimental should use codenames, not suites
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.15
Severity: important
Tags: patch
As I understand the current Release Team practices (in X-Debbugs-CC), uploads
to non-unstable/experimental suites should nowadays rather use the codenames
(wheezy, wheezy-proposed-updates, wheezy-security or wheezy-lts) instead of
suites (oldstable, oldstable-proposed-updates, oldstable-security or
oldstable-lts). Although both styles work, using the codenames avoids
race-conditions in times around new stable releases, and are less confusing.
This could be a possible diff:
--- devref.orig.txt 2015-08-21 22:49:46.985614431 +0200
+++ devref.new.txt 2015-08-21 22:58:15.226984105 +0200
@@ -2209,9 +2209,10 @@
from the first line of the debian/changelog file and places it in
the Distribution field of the .changes file.
- There are several possible values for this field: stable,
- unstable, testing-proposed-updates and experimental. Normally,
- packages are uploaded into unstable.
+ Packages are normally uploaded into unstable. Uploads to unstable or
+ experimental should use these suite names in the changelog entry;
+ uploads for other supported suites should use the suite codenames,
+ as they avoid any ambiguity.
Actually, there are other possible distributions: codename
-security, but read Section 5.8.5, “Handling security-related
Cheers, OdyX
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