[Debian-med-packaging] Some questions about seq (Was: r11551 - in trunk/packages/seg/trunk/debian: . patches source)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Laszlo,

I have commited some cosmetic changes to your seq packaging.  Your change below
triggers two questions to me:

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 08:48:00PM +0000, Laszlo Kajan wrote:
> Modified: trunk/packages/seg/trunk/debian/changelog
> ===================================================================
> --- trunk/packages/seg/trunk/debian/changelog	2012-07-04 19:27:02 UTC (rev 11550)
> +++ trunk/packages/seg/trunk/debian/changelog	2012-07-04 20:47:59 UTC (rev 11551)
> @@ -1,25 +1,6 @@
> -lowcompseg (19973009.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
> +seg (1994101801-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

1. At some point in time there was a decision to choose a name
   longer than only three letters (which is a bit weak regarding
   potential name space pollution.

   I do not question your decision in principle but it would nice
   to hear the motivation behind this step.

2. I agree that versioning unversioned code is hard.  You decreased
   the version number compared to the former choice and I also
   wonder why.  Looking at the ftp download site the youngest file
   is dated

     genwin.h	3.5 kB	6/20/00 2:00:00 AM

   So I would expect a versioning 20002006 rather than 199<something>.
   Same as above:  You might have your reasons I do not question but
   a short explanation might help letting other people know.

   Remark: I personally always use 0.0.YYYYMMDD version numbers if
   there is some need to invent a date based version to be easily
   able to increase the version once upstream might decide to switch
   to real version numbers.  I admit in this case chances are low that
   this will ever happen - I'm just mentioning it as some general
   information.

Kind regards and thanks for your effort to enrich Debian with a while
set of biological software

     Andreas.

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