Hi Andres, Does that mean that you want me to set the debchange back to <version>-1 and remove that tag. No problem. I am happy to do that, if that is required.
Maybe a stupid question: I simply do not understand this policy. The package is already available via NeuroDebian. If I do not make a new changelog paragraph, this results in two different initial Debian release with exactly same revision number (<version>-1). One here and one at NeuroDebian. Is that really intended? Best, Oliver On 02/04/2014 22:35, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi Oliver, > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:17:23PM +0200, Oliver Lindemann wrote: >> I decided to keep it in science. This is actually also how the >> NeuroDebian package it build and how Yaroslav (from NeuroDebian) >> proposed it originally . I included an override of the Lintian warning. >> (Easy, since Raphael did it already). > That's fine (since it sounds like an educated decision ;-)). > >> Due to all this changes, I think it is also required to "debchange -i", >> right? > Well, that's a different pair of shoes. IMHO you right now have way to > frequently called debchange. The reason for this statement is that usually > your very first == "Initial release" should look like: > > > python-expyriment (<versionstring>-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * Initial release (Closes: #742639) > > -- Oliver Lindemann <[email protected]> <timestamp> > > > and nothing else. The debian/changelog file describes changes *inside* > Debian (at least usually) and before a package had its initial upload > there are no changes. Does this sound logical? Moreover, before the > package is uploaded the first time the target distribution (here > "unstable") should be UNRELEASED to set a flag for all team member that > no upload has happened yet. So starting a new changelog paragraph like > you did is simply wrong. > > Since you are actually using a version control system all those changes > you did document are available via `git log` for your fellow team mates > so there is really no point in bloating the initial upload with this > information. The situation will change once the first package was > really accepted to Debian. Than changes like these become interesting. > > Thanks for your work on this > > Andreas. > -- /*Dr. Oliver Lindemann* Division of Cognitive Science University of Potsdam/ Karl - Liebknecht Str. 24/25, Building 14, 14476 Potsdam, Germany Tel: +49 - 331 - 977 2915, Fax: +49 - 331 - 977 2794 Room: 6.24, Building 14, http://www.cognitive-psychology.eu/lindemann
