On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 05:23:45PM -0400, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Thank you for mentoring me to err on the side of caution :-) As a > rule, for Debian, is it most correct that the embedded version in the > headers be patched to reflect x.y.z tag, even if upstream only updates > the header version for x.y? Also, to make this stranger yet, the > MELPA uses date-based snapshot versioning. eg: 20160802.1405 > > https://melpa.org/#/writegood-mode It shouldn't be patched to add a minor version. This is because other ELPA package authors won't include this in their versioned dependencies. > I fixed this as a team upload, and pushed the changes. > The package is also available here: > > https://mentors.debian.net/package/helm > dget -x https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/helm/helm_2.5.0-2.dsc > > I only tested that it built and installed without error because I'm > not familiar with helm. Thanks for the fix -- though this would need to go to experimental due to the freeze. -- Sean Whitton
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