[pkg-go] consul

[Paul Tagliamonte]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 7 Mar 2016 01:50:16 PM Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 1:42 PM, Dmitry Smirnov <onlyjob at debian.org>
> wrote:
> > > I'm not sure what do you mean.
> >
> > 1.0~1 < 1.0 < 1.0+1
> >
> >
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version
>
> I'm well aware of that but I still don't understand why did you mention it?
> Why do you like "~dfsg" more than "+dfsg"?
>


Ahha! Because I've been burned by this before, hilariously!

Since sometimes this is a mistake -- and if often is -- when they fix it,
they re-post the same version with a new tarball (eww!), but this means I
can re-upload a 1.0. If you have a +dfsg, you would need to do a
1.0+dfsg1.notreally-1, rather than a 1.0, which is unfortunate

It's cosmetic, sure, but it has come in handy a few times :)

FWIW, I don't reject packages out of the blue, this was a friendly reject,
not a "kthxbye" reject. Routine rejects like this are for the maintainer's
benefit, to quickly change a thing, rather than there was a problem.

Please don't think I rejected it because tianon or I thought there was an
issue with it that prevented it from being in main, it was a "well, it's
not in Debian, so let's just fix it right quick" type thing.

Ooodles of love,
   T



>
>
> > > Do you reckon "ds" vs "dfsg" distiction is important?
> >
> > It informs a lot of how I review or work with a package, yeah :)
> >
> > It's "just a name", but names are important to me :)
>
> Noted. :)
>
> However maintaining this distinction and changing "ds" to "dfsg" (and vice
> versa) as per upstream changes is a maintenance burden. I'd rather leave a
> note for you in "README.source" or in "copyright".
>
> --
> Regards,
>  Dmitry Smirnov.
>
> ---
>
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> differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are
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>         -- Albert Einstein, from "Aphorisms for Leo Baeck;
>            Opinions of Albert Einstein"
>



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