On 12-Dec-2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 00:45, Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > > For some reason the repository tools didn't notify the BTS that the > > package changelog closes this bug report. > > The reason is simple: -2 has been uploaded without including -1 > changelog entry (dpkg-buildpackage -v), so nothing strange has > happened. Thanks, I was unaware of that option. I'll make sure to use it when preparing source packages for upload. > This would have been avoided if the same revision was used even in > further modification of the same on-work package. That unfortunately causes other problems, not least of which is difficulty distinguishing in correspondence between packages that are actually different but have the same version string. It's cleaner and simpler to discuss separate uploads if they are separate in the changelog, too. Thanks again for the explanation. -- \ “[I]t is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he | `\ thinks he already knows.” —Epictetus, _Discourses_ | _o__) | Ben Finney <ben@benfinney.id.au>
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