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Re: Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog

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Hi,



El dom., 27 de sep. de 2020 a la(s) 21:08, Louis-Philippe Véronneau (
pollo@debian.org) escribió:

> Hi!
>
> I am proposing a minor addition to the DPT policy to try to make the use
> of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog more consistent. The full diff can be
> found here [1].
>
> The problem this tries to solves is inconsistent use of UNRELEASED in
> debian/changelog. Some people do not use it at all, and it can make
> working on team packages harder.
>
> Indeed, if you try to modify a package, if people don't use UNRELEASED,
> you first need to check if the current VCS version has been uploaded to
> the archive or not. This complicates the life of people doing mass
> updates, as they can't rely on packages with `unstable` having been
> uploaded.
>
> This be can seen for example in the latest batch of updates by onovy,
> where new versions of a package were made instead of marking changes as
> addition to a yet to be released version, because some packages were
> marked `unstable` but hadn't been uploaded.
>
> I don't think it's a lot to ask and will surely make team contributions
> more pleasant :)
>
>
Yes, +1 for this please.

Cheers,
eamanu

Cheers,
>
> [1]:
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/-/merge_requests/15
>
> --
>   ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀
>   ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁  Louis-Philippe Véronneau
>   ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋   pollo@debian.org / veronneau.org
>   ⠈⠳⣄
>
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Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2020-09-28 02:10 +0200
  Re: Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog Emmanuel Arias <emmanuelarias30@gmail.com> - 2020-09-28 02:40 +0200
  Re: Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie@gmail.com> - 2020-09-28 02:50 +0200
  Re: Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2020-09-28 13:30 +0200
  Re: Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org> - 2020-09-28 15:00 +0200
    Re: Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog Louis-Philippe Véronneau <pollo@debian.org> - 2020-10-06 18:00 +0200
      Re: Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog Jonathan Carter <jcc@debian.org> - 2020-10-06 18:10 +0200
        Re: Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog Emmanuel Arias <eamanu@yaerobi.com> - 2020-10-06 20:40 +0200

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