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Re: Proposal: Handling of changelog bug closures in Debian derived distros



On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:59:52 +1000, Anthony Towns
<aj@azure.humbug.org.au> said:  

> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:11:01AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> foo (1.0-2naibed2) quux; urgency=low, origin=naibed foo
>> (1.0-2naibed1) quux; urgency=low, origin=naibed foo (1.0-2)
>> unstable; urgency=high

> Neat.

> Presumably Debian should REJECT uploads with an Origin: field other
> than "debian", no?

> Would it be more pleasant to have something like:

>> foo (1.0-2naibed1) naibed/quux; urgency=low

> instead?

> Would it be worth requiring:

>> foo (1.0-2) debian/unstable; urgency=high
> or
>> foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=high, origin=debian
> for Debian uploads?

        No, please don't/ It is one thing to patch dpkg to make things
 easier for the derivatives (on the other hand, they can patch their
 own version of dpkg), it is another to change how uplaods work in
 Debian, or to reject uploads to Debian because one forgot add the
 debian origin.

        manoj
-- 
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work. Herbert V. Prochnow
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/>
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