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Re: Proposal: Handling of changelog bug closures in Debian derived distros         

Group: linux.debian.project · Group Profile
Author: Manoj Srivastava
Date: Nov 14, 2006 10:00

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:59:52 +1000, Anthony Towns
azure.humbug.org.au> said:
> On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:11:01AM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> foo (1.0-2naibed2) quux; urgency=low, origin=naibed foo
>> (1.0-2naibed1) quux; urgency=low, origin=naibed foo (1.0-2)
>> unstable; urgency=high
> Neat.
> Presumably Debian should REJECT uploads with an Origin: field other
> than "debian", no?
> Would it be more pleasant to have something like:
>> foo (1.0-2naibed1) naibed/quux; urgency=low
> instead?
> Would it be worth requiring:
>> foo (1.0-2) debian/unstable; urgency=high
> or
>> foo (1.0-2) unstable; urgency=high, origin=debian
> for Debian uploads?

No, please don't/ It is one thing to patch dpkg to make things
easier for the derivatives (on the other hand, they can patch their
own version of dpkg), it is another to change how uplaods work in
Debian, or to reject uploads to Debian because one forgot add the
debian origin.

manoj
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