On Sat, 12 Nov 2016, Christoph Biedl wrote: > * Fake a new upstream version number, like foo_1.0a.orig.tar.xz. > Yes, it's faking. Using "+repack" is more obvious but still means > this gets carried into the Debian version number.
This is the recommended way of doing things, yes. > * Switch upstream tarball compression. This works, I found an upload[3] > where -2 switched from .gz to .xz. Still rather a hack[4], and if this > means going away from xz to something older, it feels wrong. This is going to get people wondering what you were up to. Don't do it. -- Henrique Holschuh
