[Da-tools-discuss] a couple of stylistic questions

[Stephen Gran]

Hey all,

I just did a couple of commits to clean up the packaging of a few of the
packages, and it got me thinking.  My workflow is to generally make
changes that I feel are smenatically related (in this case, freshen the
packaging) and then commit them as one commit, even if that means
multiple lines in debian/changelog.  Do other people have other
preferences (lots of small commits, eg)?  I don't mind either way, I
just want to make it easy for to collaborate, so I'm asking.

And another thought this raised:
In a lot of projects I work on, we tend to use distribution=UNRELEASED
or something in the changelog while we're working on a new release, and
only change it just prior to upload and tag.  This makes it easy to
track whether another change needs to increment the revision or not, but
this isn't exactly the normal packaging workflow - most of these
packages are irregularly uploaded to the archive, if at all.  Thoughts
about how to handle this?

Thanks all,
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