On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 09:37:49AM +0200, José Luis Blanco-Claraco wrote: > Hi dear mentors! > > I'm the upstream author and Debian maintainer of a package, and after > uploading a couple of versions to different releases (unstable and > experimental), now I'm unsure about what should be the *order* of the > different changelog entries in a forthcoming release to experimental, > I'm sure you'll be able to quickly solve my doubt. > > Here is the order of events (from [1]): > > [2021-01-03] Accepted mrpt 1:2.1.7-1 (source) into unstable > (New release, unstacle is frozen, so upload to experimental) > [2021-03-31] Accepted mrpt 1:2.2.0-1 (source amd64 all) into experimental > (Then we had to upload a patch to solve a serious bug in 2.1.7-1): > [2021-04-13] Accepted mrpt 1:2.1.7-2 (source) into unstable > Next, I want to release 2.3.0, into (I guess) experimental. > > If I reflect the order of events above in debian/changelog, it would read: > mrpt (1:2.3.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium > ... > mrpt (1:2.1.7-2) unstable; urgency=medium > ... > mrpt (1:2.2.0-1) experimental; urgency=medium > ... > mrpt (1:2.1.8-1) unstable; urgency=medium (I dont see that version on tacker… typo?)
> ... > mrpt (1:2.1.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium > ... > mrpt (1:2.1.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium > ... > > Is it ok to have non-consecutive versions in the changelog? If not: > what's the correct way to handle it? > > Extra question: How is a port from experimental to unstable supposed > to happen? Making a new upload with a new changelog entry? > > Thanks! > > [1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mrpt My bikeshed color on this would be not to order by date, but how the relations of the versions are; likw in anchestor/successor. I mean, for example 2.2.0 never saw sid. So 2.1.7-2 is not based on 2.2.0, and following the path, 2.3.0-1 is not based on 2.1.7-2, but on 2.2.0-1 IOW, I would order them this way:* 1:2.3.0-1 1:2.2.0-1 1:2.1.7-2 1:2.1.7-1 1:2.1.6-1 * There'd be a corner case when 2.3.0 is not based on 2.2.0, but thats unlikely (I didnt check)
