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

[Jon Dowland]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:00:16PM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> 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!

Thanks!

I made a small number of other changes, hopefully nothing controversial.
I'm a fan of parallel builds but getting the upstream Makefile into parallel
mode reliably will need more work.  I've tagged and pushed to the VCS.

THanks for your work on this!