also sprach James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.09.21.1526 +0200]: > I think the reasoning is that it is the extra step for sponsors to > build with -v.
... and sometimes -sa. > Perhaps we could have a convention that the version number is > incremented as you like, but if the sponsor requests it the maintainer > collapses the entries. > > Would that be acceptable? How about we use 1.2-3~mentors.1 1.2-3~mentors.2 1.2-3~mentors.3 and when the sponsor pulls it, s/he just drops the ~mentors.* suffix and uploads -3 while simply concatenating the changelog entries of the intermediary versions, using the most recent stanza's date for the final stanza? -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "brevity is the soul of wit." -- polonius (hamlet) "brevity is ... wit." -- the simpsons
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