Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-04-05 Thread Holger Levsen
On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 11:47:09AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > §3.2.2 Uniqueness of version numbers > > > > The part of the version number after the epoch must not be reused for > > a version of the package with different contents once the package has > > been accepted into the archive, even if

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-04-05 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 at 11:47:09 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > > §3.2.2 Uniqueness of version numbers > > > > The part of the version number after the epoch must not be reused for > > a version of the package with different contents once the package has > > been accepted into the archive, even if the

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-04-04 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, Thank you for the feedback, Simon. I tried to incorporate what you said while avoiding talking about the namespace pairs, for the sake of readability. Further, I shortened "upstream version without the epoch" to "upstream version" because the epoch is a Debian thing. Seeking seconds: >

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-03-29 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 at 08:12:15 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Seeking seconds: > > > §3.2.2 Uniqueness of version numbers This has lost the part of Adam's wording where he explicitly said that this applies to all three of these namespaces: * (source package name, source version without epoch) * (

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-03-29 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:12:15AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Seeking seconds: > > > §3.2.2 Uniqueness of version numbers > > > > The part of the version number after the epoch must not be reused for > > a version of the package with different contents once the package has > > been accepted into

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-03-29 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, Seeking seconds: > §3.2.2 Uniqueness of version numbers > > The part of the version number after the epoch must not be reused for > a version of the package with different contents once the package has > been accepted into the archive, even if the version of the package > previously using

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-03-29 Thread Adam Borowski
On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 08:02:48AM -0300, David Bremner wrote: > Adam Borowski writes: > > > > Sounds better than mine. I'd re-add "once that package has been accepted > > into the archive", to make it obvious that resubmissions to NEW and/or > > mentors are expected to reuse version numbers of w

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-03-29 Thread David Bremner
Adam Borowski writes: > > Sounds better than mine. I'd re-add "once that package has been accepted > into the archive", to make it obvious that resubmissions to NEW and/or > mentors are expected to reuse version numbers of what they amend. Personally, I usually increase version numbers in those

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-03-28 Thread Adam Borowski
On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 03:32:02PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Suggested replacement: > > The part of the version number after the epoch must not be reused for a > version of the package with different contents, even if the version > of the package previously using that part of the ve

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-03-28 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Adam, On Wed, Mar 28 2018, Adam Borowski wrote: > Here's my proposed wording: Thank you for working on this. > . > §3.2.2. Versions must be unique "Uniqueness of version numbers" would be more fitting with Policy's tone. And versions are unique by definition :) It's version numbers

Bug#881431: proposed wording

2018-03-28 Thread Adam Borowski
Control: tags -1 +patch Here's my proposed wording: . §3.2.2. Versions must be unique Because of a quirk of file naming, version numbers that are identical save for epoch cause problems, and thus must not be used. In such case you may bump the Debian revision (it doesn't need to start at 1