On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 11:40:52PM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 05:54:55PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > With my one of most active sponsors hat on: the current policy is that a > > version that has never hit the archive must not have a separate changelog > > entry, unless there are non-negligible users (such as a derivative, upstream > > repository or at least the package being deployed to multiple users at a > > workplace). A past history is more acceptable than repeated attempts for an > > upload. > > > > This is what I was taught, and what I not only recommend but also require of > > sponsorees. There seems to be a concensus on -mentors that this is the > > right way.
I always understand that what Adam states here is some consensus and I follow the same policy to not have any gaps in version history (for exactly the reasons Adam has given). > with my sponsoring hat on, I will be unhappy if someone reuses version > numbers and I will ask to never do this again. I very much agree with > Ian's position that this is bad. > > As a sponsor, I'm a non-negligible user and I want to sensible be able > to not having to again review stuff I already have reviewed. > > If you have put it on mentors.d.n, it's out in the public. Disclaimer: I do not sponsor from mentors.d.n but I require my sponsees to use an apropriate team Vcs and the tag will be only set if the package has hit unstable. I also set tags for my own packages only after beeing accepted in unstable. I'm afraid there is no right or wrong in this question. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de