Re: [Wicd-devel] wicd Debian patches to (not?) apply

[Axel B. <ab...@de...>]

Hi Tom,

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 06:22:33AM +0100, Tom Van Braeckel wrote:
> > IIRC I read a commit somewhere which declared the changelog as
> > obsolete. Why is it considered obsolete? Wasn't it only generated
> > automatically anyways?
> 
> Oh... Yes, it was generated automatically but I figured it wasn't very
> useful because that information can also be found in the Bazaar
> repository at Launchpad.
> But okay, I understand it is convenient/necessary for you so I re-added it :-)

Well, it's not a must (the "P" in the warning meant "pedantic" :-),
but it's helpful for packagers (e.g. "Do I need to update any
dependencies?") as well as users. At least on Debian, users are used
to first lookup upstream changes in the installed package at
/usr/share/doc/$package/changelog.gz (while the packaging changelog
resides in /usr/share/doc/$package/changelog.Debian.gz), so it's
indeed mostly convenience not having to figure out _where_ to lookup
the bzr log.

> I fixed the issues and updated the release .tar.gz at Launchpad:
> https://launchpad.net/wicd/1.7/1.7.4/+download/wicd-1.7.4.tar.gz

Appreciated, but please don't do that in the future anymore and give
new tar balls a different name.

It's considered bad practice to overwrite already published releases:
Packagers may have already imported the old tar ball into their
systems labeled "1.7.4" and now there is a different tar ball which
would need the same label, e.g. a git tag. And deleting git tags to
let them later point elsewhere is considered bad practice for the same
reason. Additionally some tools may not even be able to cope with it.

So I've imported that second tar ball now into the Debian packaging as
version number "1.7.4+tb2". Another project I'm involved in had to
fixup a tar ball recently, too, and they dubbed the second tar ball
for the "0.9.6" release "0.9.6v2". Also a possibility.

Anyways, the new tar ball looks much better and no more throws the
warnings I sent you. Thanks! :-)

		Kind regards, Axel
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