Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 07:53:47PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> writes:
> >...
> > > I haven't found it explicitely mentioned, but the logial version number 
> > > for a binary NMU of version 1.0 would be 1.0-0.0.1 .
> > 
> > A binary NMU implies you haven't changed the source. If you change the
> > version number you have changed the source and must upload it too.
> > Thus binary NMU must have the same version number.
> >...
> 
> That's wrong.
> 
> Please read section 5.10.2.1. of your Developer's Reference.

Ok, the hopefully nowadays very rare "magic" version bumping to get a
recompile of an already install package uploaded.

Does that happen anymore?

MfG
        Goswin