Hello Peter and Sven, >From Sven: > To comply with DEP-14, I just created the branch debian/latest and > intend to drop the branch debian/sid eventually. > Can you please set debian/latest to 'default' and 'protected'? I don't > have the rights to do this.
Awesome, I've done these changes and also gave you Maintainer permissions to the repo. > may I ping you about the my below request? Sorry for the delay and thank you for the ping! >From Peter: > as you suspect the Linitian tag is only emitted if the number of > changelog entries is one. The reason is that it is too late to switch to > the suggested versioning scheme after the first upload. Once an upload > with a date-based versioning scheme has been done, an epoch likely needs > to be introduced in case upstream switches to a conventional versioning > scheme. Therefore this Lintian hint become pointless after the first > upload. Still the reasoning to avoid prefix-less date-based versioning > schemes remains valid. Peter is correct, the main thing to have in mind is that having the package version starting with "0~" is much less painful than dealing with an epoch, so the lintian is hinting towards the idea that all calver-versioned packages should be versioned like that (with "0~"). For the record, I remember Raphaël once mentioning on this list that epochs are also troublesome for derivatives, but I don't know the details on that (and it was a few years ago). Still, if you think there's an issue with this versioning (that overcomes the benefit of it), Sven, feel free to raise your concerns and we can drop it if it makes sense. Cheers, -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
