Re: Please allow sphinx 0.4.2-1 into testing

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Piotr Ożarowski [Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:33:44 +0200]:

Hello,

> [no sarcasm, just a question]
> Is it a general rule? The "no new upstream release" one?. I plan to upload 
> sqlalchemy 0.4.7p1-1 with 3 lines of code changed soon[1]. Do I really
> have to prepare 0.4.7-2 with changes moved from upstream sources to
> debian/patches? What does it change (besides avoiding big debdiff due to
> lots of date stamps in documentation / new regression test files)?

> If it's not a general rule, what's a sane debdiff size?

Well, if a new upstream version would be source-equivalent to a
backported version, then of course the new upstream version is ok.

The thing is that it shouldn't include stuff that would not be allowed
in a backported version.

Cheers,

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Adeodato Simó                                     dato at net.com.org.es
Debian Developer                                  adeodato at debian.org
 
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