[pkg-lynx-maint] About src:lynx in the NEW queue

[Axel Beckert]

Hi again,

Axel Beckert wrote:
> I'll likely upload a new version of src:lynx to the NEW queue later
> today. It will probably have a lower version than the one currently
> in (2.8.9dev6 vs 2.8.9~dev8), so I'd appreciate if you would just
> reject the first upload and only passthrough the second one (which is
> yet to be uploaded) so that the versions won't have the wrong order.
>
> Background: We want to rename src:lynx-cur to src:lynx and I'll take
> that chance to also fix the (more or less historic) version numbering
> without "~" in there. :-)

Meh, I made a thinko here: While this works perfectly fine for the
source package, it won't work without epoch for the binary packages as
those are not renamed and would have lower versions.

So the first chance to change the Debian version number to using
"~dev" without using an epoch is when upstream starts the 2.8.10
development cycle.

Then again, upstream's released stable versions have a "rel" suffix,
so it's not really that important to mangle the "dev" suffix into
"~dev". :-)

Anyway, I'll upload a 2.8.9dev8 based package into the NEW queue
anyways, so that there is a chance to continue seamless with the new
source package name.

		Regards, Axel
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