[Pkg-mono-devel] RFS: libanculus-sharp

[Jo Shields]

On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 22:51 +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:19:00 +0200, Mirco Bauer wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:32:22 +0200
> > David Paleino <d.paleino at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Please take a look at it:
> > > 
> > > svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-cli-libs/packages/libanculus-sharp/trunk
> > > 
> > > I believe there's nothing to fix. But if there's some Group Policy
> > > violation, please tell me, I don't want a buggy package in Debian :)
> > 
> > The package looks good to me except the changelog. You can't remove old
> > entries from it (as in changing history) and you can't re-use a debian
> > revision (-1) that is already in the debian archive. Please put the old
> > changelog back and add a clean -2 entry closing all the said bugs
> > (reports).
> 
> Ok, sorry.
> I never reintroduced a package which was removed, that's why I also unarchived
> the ITP -- I wanted to close it again :)
> However, -1 was removed also from testing, so there's no -1 in Debian
> currently. Am I wrong?

Even if it was removed from testing, the package still counts as having
"existed" elsewhere in Debian - so a particular package version is still
counted as being used up. You can't upload a "new" version with the same
version number as an "old" version but different contents, it only
confuses the poor Debian infrastructure.