On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 04:46:04PM -0400, Jonathan Underwood wrote: > > I don't follow Debian development at all, so I may be entirely > misunderstanding what you wrote, but it sounds like you're wanting to > change the release version numbering of the shorewall components to > subvert the Debian freeze for shorewall, which seems counter to the > intentions of a Freeze?
Not at all. The version number associated with a change has nothing to do (or very little) with whether or not it is accepted into testing during the freeze. It is all about the severity of the bug being addressed and the extent of the change required to address it. > Or is it that, the Freeze would require you to > backport fixes to the frozen version? > This is only an absolute require if I make new uploads to unstable that are not targeted for the frozen release. > The Fedora shorewall packages bundle all tarballs into a single > package (and then split them out into sub-packages) - in Debian, are > you saying you have a package per tarball? If that's the case, I can > see that you wouldn't want to build a new package for a tarball that > is unchanged in all but version number. But then, there's nothing > requiring you to do so. > I have one package per upstream tarball. It is possible to combine all the tarballs into one Debian source package. However, I have thus far chosen not to do this as it would be complicated if Tom decided to go to a release scheme where all the components were not always in sync from a versioning perspective. Additionally, it makes requesting freeze exceptions more challenging since it becomes one package with dozens or hundreds of "gratiutous" changes as opposed do to those changes being spread out over several packages. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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