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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