(cc'ing the bug) On 27/09/13 15:05, Anton Balashov wrote: > What about versions? If there will be nexuiz-data_2.5.2-7, must > there be rest of nexuiz packages 2.5.2-7 or 2.5.2-6 for rest of > packages is OK?
All binary packages built from the same source package (e.g. nexuiz-data, nexuiz-music and nexuiz-textures built from src:nexuiz-data) must[1] have the same version. When a Debian maintainer uploads a release, what they upload is an entire source package. Binary packages built from different source packages (e.g. nexuiz-music built from src:nexuiz-data and nexuiz built from src:nexuiz) do not need to share a version number. nexuiz and nexuiz-data don't. > What step should I do next for release? If you consider src:nexuiz-data to be ready for upload, a Debian Developer with upload rights needs to check it over, and if they approve, do the actual upload. This means uploading > 750M of data, which is probably why nobody is particularly enthusiastic about doing it :-) In principle, recompressing large binary packages is great, but in practice, it isn't necessarily worth doing the upload just for that, unless/until there is some other reason to do it. nexuiz-data 2.5.2-6 (> 850M) is in stable, so it will stay in the archive regardless; so when someone uploads a recompressed version, it will take > 750M *more* archive space. Similarly, existing Nexuiz users (if they don't put the package on hold) will download 750M of new data, in order for new Nexuiz users to be able to download 75M less. I'm not convinced that's worth it, for data for a game that is no longer developed upstream (some of its upstream developers started a new proprietary game under the Nexuiz name, and the rest forked it and called the actively-developed fork Xonotic). If you're interested in the Nexuiz codebase, IMO a better thing to do would be to help David Bate package Xonotic (<http://bugs.debian.org/646377>). If there is some other bug in nexuiz-data that justifies an upload *anyway*, then my reasons not to do it no longer apply, and your changes should be included in that upload. Regards, S [1] well, that's not 100% true: the real situation is that each of their version numbers must increase with each upload, but they can be different. But don't do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
