Bug#691399: Acknowledgement (freedoom: New upstream (beta) release)

Fabian Greffrath fabian at greffrath.com
Fri Oct 26 10:00:16 UTC 2012


Am 26.10.2012 11:41, schrieb Jon Dowland:
> One question: why 1.8~beta1 for the upstream release? Why not
> 1.8-beta1 (matching the upstream tarball more closely)

Because that's recommended by Policy:
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/footnotes.html#f37

Releases with '~' sort earlier than the ones without. This way we do 
not have to introduce an epoch or ugly hacks like '8.0-final' in order 
to have the final release sort later than the pre-release.

> No problem. Although It appears I never uploaded the release removing
> myself, and I've since re-joined the games team, so I've re-added
> myself. I just deleted the 0.7-2 changelog entry and the corresponding
> stanza in the latest entry.  All your changes look good.

Thanks, great to have you back in the team!

  - Fabian



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