Bug#878685: stretch-pu: package udftools/1.3-2

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On 2017-11-20 8:39, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Saturday 18 November 2017 20:13:14 Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 + pending
> >
> > On Fri, 2017-11-10 at 17:59 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
[...]
> > > Particularly, I'd have pointed out that the changelog is illogical -
> > > it should either be 1.3-1, then the 1.3-2 unstable changes, then 1.3-
> > > 2~deb9u1, or 1.3-1 then 1.3-1+deb9u1.
> >
> > I'm not going to bother with a reject-and-reupload cycle this time, 
> > but
> > please don't assume that won't happen in future. This:
> >
> > +udftools (1.3-2~deb9u1) stretch; urgency=low
> > +
> > +  * Fix path to pktsetup in udftools init script
> > +
> > + -- Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>  Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:41:57 
> > +0200
> > +
> >  udftools (1.3-1) unstable; urgency=low
> >
> > is simply wrong.
>
> Ok, I would like to ask, which version to choose if uploaded package is
> exactly same as version X in unstable? As in unstable is version 1.3-2 
> I
> chose that suffix ~deb9u1. But I have not found any details about this
> situation in any debian manual.

The version number is fine. The problem is that the changelog should 
have included the unstable stanza for 1.3-2, with the ~deb9u1 stanza 
then simply being "rebuild for stable" or something similar. This is the 
same as I'd expect if you were uploading the package to 
stretch-backports.

Regards,

Adam