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Policy proposal: Consistent use of UNRELEASED in debian/changelog

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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 :)

Cheers,

[1]:
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/tools/python-modules/-/merge_requests/15

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  ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁  Louis-Philippe Véronneau
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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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