[Debian-med-packaging] [bambamc] tag debian/0.0.50-1 created (now e9f14c4)

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Roland,
[answer in public to let other people know / discuss]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 11:02:46AM +0200, rf at q-leap.de wrote:
> >>>>> "Andr" == Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> writes:
> 
> Hi Andreas,
> 
>     Andr> Hi, I changed the tag since the changelog mentioned UNRELEASED
>     Andr> for this tag which is wrong.  So I deleted it also at remote
>     Andr> repository used unstable and re-tagged.
> 
> sure, the tag on an UNRELEASED entry doesn't make sense. Thanks for
> letting me know. I'll delete the tag in my clone and pull. Question
> concerning this: Shall we put unstable in the changelog for future
> such updates (you asked to put UNRELEASED in an earlier mail).

Just UNRELEASED is fine and the final uploader will set the tag.  The
rationale is that different Sponsors could pull the status of the
repository and it is good to know whether something is just uploaded or
not (without checking the Debian mirror).  It could always be that I'm
tempted to do some last minute minor changes which would require
fiddling around with tags.  Or it might happen that the upload is not
done in a timely manner and some tag is hanging around for a long time
with no corresponding upload.  So this method is at least this what IMHO
makes the most sense. 

I have some other sponsee in Debian GIS and he prefers to finalise the
package with "unstable" + tag - that's also a way to do things since the
drawbacks I explained above are usually quite rare in practice.  We just
need to agree upon a common procedure.

Kind regards

         Andreas. 

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