* Andreas Tille <ti...@debian.org> [2018-02-17 22:30]:
A not uploaded state has the target distribution "UNRELEASED". Once it is uploaded this is set to "unstable" and the commit log says something like:"Uploaded to unstable (or new)" I think that's pretty obvious vor everybody even without a tag.
We had the UNRELEASED discussion before, so there are obviously different ways to do it. But I would call an upload a release, as in you should not modify that version anymore and also don't use the same version number again for something different. So you might as well tag it. I don't see a benefit of putting the tag afterwards, rather it would make it harder for tools like git-buildpackage to find a reference point for a new version. Also note that packages might get uploaded and used on other sites, so it's useful to have the tag as a reference point. If your way of doing it is really common practice, I would be glad to get some references for it. But otherwise we could just agree to have different views and stop this :).
Its not about holding back version numbers. As far as I know ftpmaster is not really happy about Debian revisions different from "-1".
Do you have a reference for this? Because I see some packages with higher numbers in there and one I uploaded recently with a -2 got accepted pretty quick without a complaint.
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