Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > Suppose the Debian and upstream maintainers are different people, with > different responsibilities, but they coordinate well and they work in > the same git branch. The Debian maintainer might not do an upload if > upstream makes changes that don't have any effect in Debian; and the > upstream maintainer might not do an upstream release for changes that > only affect Debian packaging. This would all work, but it would mean > that there might be upstream releases with Debian upload and vice versa.
Good point. > I'll go with > Often this is because there is no separate upstream, and the > package's primary maintenance is within Debian. > which I think is both vague enough to be true and definite enough to > be useful. Yeah, that seems fine to me. > Rather than trying to restate everything fully again, I have written > this: > - The absence of ``debian_revision``, and therefore of a hyphen in the > version number, indicates a non-native version: the package has > no separate versioning in upstream versus Debian. See > :ref:`s-native-version`. Yes, that looks good to me. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
