Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-27 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org [120426 02:08]: Thanks for the information, I thought it was obsoleted when the closing of bugs became versionned. Before closing become versioned, the situation was more complex: Before, a upload of a .changes would behave differently depending whether

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, gregor herrmann wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:33:31 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Talking about improvements, if the following part about NMU acknowledgement is obsolete as I think, how about removing it, either as a separate bug, or as part of the general refresh

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:19:50PM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, gregor herrmann wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:33:31 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: Talking about improvements, if the following part about NMU acknowledgement is obsolete as I think, how about

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-25 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 04:19:50PM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : Yes, that's still how the BTS works. Otherwise, the MU is a descendant of the previous MU instead of the NMU. You can alternatively just include the changelog entries from the NMU

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-25 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 05:38:11PM -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : Versioning is a directed acyclic graph. Each version has at most one ancestor, though it may have many descendants. When you upload a maintainer upload (MU) without including the NMU changelog entry, you are indicating that

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I am still confused. Does the discussed paragraph mean that the whole NMU changelog entry has to be still present in the changelog, just under the latest entry, or that they have to be closed again in the latest entry ? Either one will work for

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-24 Thread Chris Knadle
On Monday, April 23, 2012 18:54:41, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: On 23/04/12 at 17:24 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: Oops... sending again, as I forgot to CC: the developer's reference team. On Monday, April 23, 2012 16:26:59, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, On 23/04/12 at 14:56 -0400, Chris

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-24 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:34:00 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: For instance, say a potential maintainer picks up an old package to do an NMU on, and updates the version of debhelper from v5 to v8, switches from 1.0 format to 3.0 quilt format, and likewise has to make numerous other similar tweaks

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-24 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 02:01:48AM +0200, gregor herrmann a écrit : On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:34:00 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: For instance, say a potential maintainer picks up an old package to do an NMU on, and updates the version of debhelper from v5 to v8, switches from 1.0 format

Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Knadle
Greetings. I would like your consideration as to whether to update Section 5.11.1 of the Developer's Reference to incorporate some of the views of Stefano Zacchiroli concerning When and how to do an NMU. [1] For background as to why this came up, there's recently been discussion about

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 23/04/12 at 14:56 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: Greetings. I would like your consideration as to whether to update Section 5.11.1 of the Developer's Reference to incorporate some of the views of Stefano Zacchiroli concerning When and how to do an NMU. [1] For background as to why

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-23 Thread Chris Knadle
Oops... sending again, as I forgot to CC: the developer's reference team. On Monday, April 23, 2012 16:26:59, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, On 23/04/12 at 14:56 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: Greetings. I would like your consideration as to whether to update Section 5.11.1 of the Developer's

Re: Proposal to update NMU section 5.11.1

2012-04-23 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
On 23/04/12 at 17:24 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: Oops... sending again, as I forgot to CC: the developer's reference team. On Monday, April 23, 2012 16:26:59, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: Hi, On 23/04/12 at 14:56 -0400, Chris Knadle wrote: Greetings. I would like your consideration as