On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 01:07, Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Because it doesn't add any information for the end users, > > Sure it does. It tells end users what was changed in between the > REJECT and the new upload. Eliding this means that it's no longer > possible to trivially tell what was changed between uploads.[1]
But does really an end user knows/cares about it? You are talkink from a developer POV, that's a little bit low-level than most of our users. >> if not confusion: it seems that 2 different version reached the >> archive, since the users will see 2 different entries in the >> changelog (for example using apt-listchanges) when indeed there is >> only 1 package uploaded after the one previou in the archive. > > There were two uploaded, not just one. Furthermore, it doesn't matter > how many have reached the archive when a user is examining changelogs. > All you care about is the version that you have, the version that > you're upgrading to, and any previous versions you had installed. None > of those necessarily correlate with versions that are actually in the > archive. mh, so the latest changelog entry should report why the previous upload was REJECTED, and what was done to fix it. >> Ah, did I forgot to remember that "Our priorities are our users and >> free software"? > > Obviously, which is why you should do what I suggested. > > You shouldn't treat changelogs of packages which happen to stop off at > NEW any differently, even if they get REJECTed. I suggest this only because a REJECTED package is a sort of half-release, and you still need to rework (hopefully a bit) the previous changes: you rework the previous upload (that you think it was right) to meet our standards. Of course, this is just what I *feel* is correct, since no ufficial doc is available for this. Cheers, Sandro > 1: Furthermore, you really should be tagging your uploads with the > release that you uploaded to Debian with in your VCS. You are doing > that, right? Of course, but I can retag ;) -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
