[Pkg-mol-devel] MOL uploads

[Aurélien GÉRÔME]

BTW, it seems we are offlist. :)

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:55:35PM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:36:36PM +0200, Aurélien GÉRÔME wrote:
> > Well, we can rename it back to mol with the dfsg part in the version
> > and upload it again, thus making obsolete the mol-dfsg package rotting
> > in the NEW queue.
> 
> I'm currently preparing such an upload. I found in ftpmaster's REJECT
> FAQ, that changing the source package name for "dfsg repackaged" sources
> is not recommended, because it confuses source based tools like the PTS.
> I did not think about that and decided to rename the package because I
> don't like the fact that if we want to remove the dfsg part later
> (because we succeed in building everything from source) we could run into
> the problem that 0.9.71~pre9.dfsg-2 > 0.9.71~pre9-3. In this case we are
> forced to either keep the dfsg until the next upstream release or use an
> epoch.

There is another problem now: with the current changelog
(0.9.71~pre9.dfsg-2), the bugs from the previous removed upload will
not be closed... Maybe you might have merged both changelogs in a
0.9.71~pre9.dfsg-1 release. ;)

> > > As the mol-drivers versions are not really coupeld to the mol version
> > > (there is no versioned dependency). I don't think that an immediate
> > > upload is necessary. If a new package is ready I would be happy to
> > > upload it.
> > 
> > Hmm... Funny, I did not recall that. I will look at it...
> 
> I would be quite happy if you could take care of this.

Sure.

Cheers,
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