On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:56:02AM -0700, Joel Baker wrote: > However, I run into a problem at this point; future releases of the > package (-2 and above) might well need to pull in different files or > parts of the source tree. This would result in a different orig.tar.gz > file, which seems like it wouldn't work - however, it also seems silly > (and probably confusing) to version it as Debian-native, since there > is a clear versioning point in the upstream sources.
Given that I expect you might frequently find yourself doing either of changing the tarball in this way and making Debian-specific changes, I'd go for having the upstream version as 1.6-<date>, where <date> is the date on which you constructed the tarball (or some other similar strictly increasing scheme). Then you keep the upstream version and still get to make Debian-specific changes with reasonable efficiency. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
