Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: <snip> > That is a matter of style. As long as the package is non-public, you > can call it the "initial release". If you have published it, any > further changes (like upgrading to a new upstream release) should get > their own version numbers, and the old versions should be kept in the > changelog. Your initial Debian release should mention it is the initial > Debian release, but it need not be the first version documented in the > changelog.
Note that in this case dpkg-buildpackage should be called with the -v option to specify the previous uploaded version (or 0 in this case, I guess?), so that all new changelog entries are included in .changes. (I didn't know about this till tbm pointed it out to me.) -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
