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  • Re: Version changing while there is an opened RFS

    From Soren Stoutner@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 22 09:45:50 2024
    Copy: patrick@zajda.fr (Patrick ZAJDA)

    Since you are adopting the package you can do whichever of those options feels best for you. All of them would be acceptable to Debian.

    On Monday, January 22, 2024 6:07:31 AM MST Patrick ZAJDA wrote:
    Hello,

    I intent to adopt pidgin-skype package.
    The package version is based on last upstream Git main branch commit, to
    keep same versioning the package has already.

    To successfully enable hardening, I created a patch I contributed
    upstream by opening a pull request.
    The pull request was merged some hours after.

    What should I do now?
    Continue with the same version using the patch?
    Bump new version and in this case, should I only change the actual
    version in debian/changelog or create a new version to change upstream version and keep the version the RFS is opened for?

    Thanks and best regards,
    --
    Patrick ZAJDA


    --
    Soren Stoutner
    soren@stoutner.com
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  • From Gianfranco Costamagna@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 23 01:30:01 2024
    Hello,

    I intent to adopt pidgin-skype package.
    The package version is based on last upstream Git main branch commit, to
    keep same versioning the package has already.

    To successfully enable hardening, I created a patch I contributed
    upstream by opening a pull request.
    The pull request was merged some hours after.

    What should I do now?
    Continue with the same version using the patch?
    Bump new version and in this case, should I only change the actual
    version in debian/changelog or create a new version to change upstream >version and keep the version the RFS is opened for?

    Thanks and best regards,


    As first answer?
    Please ask upstream to release something new, don't make every distribution rely on git snapshots,
    because it's hard to understand when something is "stable" enough without a tagged release.
    If this isn't possible, either packaging a new snapshot or applying it as patch and bump Debian
    revision from N to N+1 is ok.
    (maybe it depends on the patch size, if small, a patch is ok to avoid import of a new tarball, if the patch
    is huge, maybe the latter is preferred. Also, there might be other commits between the Debian snapshot
    and the patch upstream acceptance, so check all the commits for their stability).

    Sorry for not providing a good answer but "it depends" is probably the right one.

    G.

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