Hello, On Thu, Oct 19 2017, Russ Allbery wrote: > My impression of discussion on debian-mentors over the past few years > is that most of the people active in sponsoring have as a requirement > that all changelogs from versions of a package that weren't uploaded > to Debian be consolidated and the version of a new package upload, as > finally uploaded to the archive, always be one higher than the last > version uploaded to Debian proper. > > This makes a lot of sense in the context of nearly all packages that > flow through sponsorship, and I realize it's a correction for the very > early days of mentors.debian.net when people tended to bump the > version for every package they made available for review, and there > were a ton of changelog entries generated from back and forth > discussions with mentors that never saw the archive. That's obviously > not very useful. > > But I feel like that sensible guideline hardened, during repeated > discussion, into something that's sometimes presented as a hard and > fast rule that one should *always* do this in Debian packaging. Yet, > I've seen a lot of cases where experienced DDs retain intermediate > unreleased versions in the changelog for various reasons, so I'm a bit > dubious of it as a concrete rule, even though it almost always makes > sense in the specific context of sponsored uploads. Thanks, I see what you mean. I suspect that this was not exactly what the original submitter was asking about, but hopefully he'll reply to clarify. -- Sean Whitton
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