Probably Chris Lamb is right in that atheist *should not* be a debian native package. But it is by decision of upstream authors. There is no separate repository for debian stuff and debian releases *do change* the atheist package version. Therefore while it is not a "Debian specific package" it is nonetheless "[...] the case where a piece of software was written specifically to be turned into a Debian package" (cf. DP 5.6.12).
It wouldn't make sense to make a source package where diffs are always empty (forced by release policy) and the debian revision is always 1. Of course things may change in the future but the main upstream author does not seem to be open to discuss the release policy and version scheme (I tried). OTOH, I believe these issues should not be discussed in a bug tracking database. If doubts on the technical competence of the maintainer and/or the sponsor arise, please do contact them directly rather than filling the bug database with non-issues. Best regards, F. Moya -- Computer Architecture and Networks Group University of Castilla-La Mancha http://arco.esi.uclm.es/~francisco.moya/ Tel:(+34) 926 295 483, Fax:(+34) 926 295 354
