[Dehs-devel] libxml-sax-perl: New upstream version available

Raphael Geissert atomo64 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 2 19:15:59 UTC 2008


On 02/03/2008, Martín Ferrari <martin.ferrari at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:
>  >
>  >  Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks. I'll switch to dversionmangle in the future.
>
>
> I don't think this is correct.Firstly, DEHS is doing the wrong thing
>  by removing dsfg and therefore assuming things that uscan don't. Also,
>  I see the uversionmangle as correct because when downloading the
>  repack script takes care of making it dfsg-free.

IMHO the repack script should then rename it to +dfsg

> Also it makes life
>  easier to everybody, because if we used the dversionmangle the
>  svn-inject script will use incorrect versions for the
>  branches/upstream tags.

How's that? that seems like a broken behaviour of svn-inject

> I would really prefer to keep our current
>  practise; DEHS can easily not strip dfsg (and understand that some
>  maintainers have a clue :)), or strip it also in the upstream version.

I plan to go the former way after version=4 watch files are accepted
on uscan, which will by default strip dfsg and similar Debian
repackaging signs via dversionmangle.


>
>  --
>
> Martín Ferrari
>


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