[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#994551: Bug#994551: 994551: no 1.0.1-4

[Andrius Merkys]

Hi Andreas and Étienne,

On 2021-09-27 22:07, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> Andreas Tille, on 2021-09-27:
>> On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 09:29:58AM +0300, Andrius Merkys wrote:
>>> NB: libcifpp 1.0.1-4 has not been released at all [1]. I am not aware of
>>> common practices on how to avoid such skipped releases, though. I myself
>>> usually check 'git tag' on Git-hosted packaging repositories.
>> Argh!  I personally keep on preaching that people keep UNRELEASED in the
>> package changelog when a package is not released.  Its simply to error
>> prone that people check `git tag` (which might have been also a
>> forgotten tag) or the package pool.  I *definitely* try to avoid not
>> released versions and I can confirm I prevented such things in similar
>> cases - but obviously I failed here.
> I'm sorry, I didn't check the version tracker when updating the
> changelog, and just dch --team'ed away.  I probably should have
> been more carful about this.  :(

I agree that keeping distribution=UNRELEASED in debian/changelog is a
nice way to prevent such issues. And 'git tag' is surely not a panacea
here, consulting with tracker.debian.org should be much less error-prone.

>>> However,
>>> we will have to remember to manually close bugs which would have been
>>> closed by 1.0.1-4.
>> I asked ftpmaster for rejection since I consider it more clean to
>> get the bugs closed properly by an upload.
> Thanks Andreas for taking care of the issue before it reaches
> the archive!

Sounds quite drastic, but I like the clean approach.

Best,
Andrius