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

[David Paleino]

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On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:21:42 +0100, Jo Shields wrote:

> 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.

Understood, thanks.

David

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