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Re: 'debian' version for libclojure-java?

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Hi,
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 08:36:17PM +0200, Markus Koschany wrote:
> Am 15.08.2017 um 02:46 schrieb Tom Marble:
> > Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> writes:
> [...]
> >>> For the latter case should we create a new, versioned package
> >>> like 'clojure-snapshot' ('libclojure-snapshot-java') or some such?
> >>
> >> It makes sense to create a new package like libclojure-snapshot-java in
> >> this case. You can also upload new snapshot versions of clojure to
> >> experimental if you don't require those version for anything being in
> >> unstable. In this case you could avoid some work and you wouldn't have
> >> to create a new source package.
> > 
> > I like that idea! Are there suggestions on how to maintain
> > the same source package, but have two targets in changelog,
> > (and the two different pristine-tar's) e.g.... ?
> >   1. libclojure-java (1.8.0-3) unstable; urgency=low
> >   2. libclojure-java (1.9.0~alpha17-1) experiemental; urgency=low
> 
> I usually maintain two different Git branches, master -> unstable and
> experimental -> experimental. You just have to be careful if you want to
> upload the experimental branch to unstable one day. In this case all
> changelog entries from unstable and experimental should be merged in
> chronological order.

…which can be done with dpkg-mergechangelogs as merge driver when merting the
expermental branch to master. The manpage has the necessary
configuration.
Cheers,
 -- Guido

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'debian' version for libclojure-java? Tom Marble <tmarble@info9.net> - 2017-08-14 20:30 +0200
  Re: 'debian' version for libclojure-java? Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2017-08-14 23:50 +0200
    Re: 'debian' version for libclojure-java? Tom Marble <tmarble@info9.net> - 2017-08-15 02:50 +0200
      Re: 'debian' version for libclojure-java? Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> - 2017-08-16 20:40 +0200
        Re: 'debian' version for libclojure-java? Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> - 2017-08-18 11:20 +0200

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