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Re: package versions with snapshots/branch updates (was: Re: Accepted gcc-5 5.3.1-21 (source) into unstable)



On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 07:44:11PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> e.g. if you have a package 1.0 and add a complete branch update as a patch
> (or upgrade to a snapshot) one should do a 1.0+gitYYYDDMM-1 or whatever format
> you choose. Not 1.0-15 or so.
Here the question is "if you package unreleased changes, should they go to
orig.tar or to debian.tar, am I right?

> That's what I just saw on debian-devel-changes:
> 
> On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 04:48:47PM +0000, Matthias Klose wrote:
> [...]
> > Changes:
> >  gcc-5 (5.3.1-21) unstable; urgency=medium
> >  .
> >    * GCC 5.4.0 release candidate 1.
[...]
> A 5.4.0 rc1 in a package versioned 5.3.1-21?
[...]
> Package versions should actually tell the correct version...
Here the question is "should the package upstream version be the same as
what the software reports/written in version.h", am I right?

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