Bug#1107137: Distinguish "native source packsge" from "native version number"
Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> Suppose the Debian and upstream maintainers are different people, with
> different responsibilities, but they coordinate well and they work in
> the same git branch. The Debian maintainer might not do an upload if
> upstream makes changes that don't have any effect in Debian; and the
> upstream maintainer might not do an upstream release for changes that
> only affect Debian packaging. This would all work, but it would mean
> that there might be upstream releases with Debian upload and vice versa.
Good point.
> I'll go with
> Often this is because there is no separate upstream, and the
> package's primary maintenance is within Debian.
> which I think is both vague enough to be true and definite enough to
> be useful.
Yeah, that seems fine to me.
> Rather than trying to restate everything fully again, I have written
> this:
> - The absence of ``debian_revision``, and therefore of a hyphen in the
> version number, indicates a non-native version: the package has
> no separate versioning in upstream versus Debian. See
> :ref:`s-native-version`.
Yes, that looks good to me.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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