Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Meredith
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * history: I haven't seen this argument fly be in (this and other instances of) this discussion, but the answer is that the proper place to record that you had an extra and fatal space in your rules file is your VCS.

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-20 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Martin Meredith [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:05:11 +]: Hey Martin, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * history: I haven't seen this argument fly be in (this and other instances of) this discussion, but the answer is that the proper place to record that

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Meredith
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:09:17PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Martin Meredith [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:05:11 +]: Hey Martin, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * history: I haven't seen this argument fly be in (this and other instances of) this

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-20 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 23:46, Martin Meredith m...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:09:17PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Martin Meredith [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:05:11 +]: Hey Martin, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 02:29:10PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * history: I haven't seen

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-20 Thread Martin Meredith
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:49:10PM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 23:46, Martin Meredith m...@debian.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:09:17PM +0100, Adeodato Simó wrote: * Martin Meredith [Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:05:11 +]: Hey Martin, On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at

Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
Hello. Hopefully I'm not beating a completely dead horse here, but since some of the proponents of this bump revision with each iteration scheme are very vocal, I thought I could be very vocal too. I will (hopefully) not beat this horse again in the near future. The (in my opinion) most important

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Adeodato Simó
Do you, as a developer, bump the debian revision each time you build a package, are ready to upload it, and discover one final problem with it? Do you, under that scenario, write in the changelog a new bullet point Oh, I botched the rules file writing `rm -rf $(CURDIR) /usr/lib`, fixed now,

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:29:10 +0100 Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es wrote: The (in my opinion) most important reason why we shouldn't ask for bumping the debian version on each iteration to our sponsorees is a peculiar one: it's classist, because (in my view of thins) sponsorees should get

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Noel David Torres Taño
Well, I do not agree with all of Neil's comments, but I think I have something to say (since the discussion is so hot and long). I'm just a maintainer. And I'm proud of that. I'm not (Neil knows) a DD nor want to be one, but I'm really proud of my help to Debian as a maintainer and as a

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Ben Finney
Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es writes: Do you, as a developer, bump the debian revision each time you build a package, are ready to upload it, and discover one final problem with it? No. I bump the release number the next time I make a change after having uploaded a release. -- \

Re: Introducing spurious revisions during sponsorship considered harmful (by some of us)

2009-01-19 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Neil Williams codeh...@debian.org (19/01/2009): Do you, as a developer, bump the debian revision each time you build a package, are ready to upload it, and discover one final problem with it? Do you, under that scenario, write in the changelog a new bullet point Oh, I botched the rules