Bug#753772: Document the use of uversionmangle=s//+dfsg/ with repack

[James McCoy]

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 10:08:40AM +0200, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> just to add my own 2¢:
> "+dfsg" is not the only common extension for repacked sources.

Right, which is why I didn't make the renaming automatically choose a
name.

> personally i prefer "~dfsg" (adopted from the pkg-multimedia team), as
> UPSTREAM~dfsg sorts before UPSTREAM, which is nice if upstream decides to
> re-release a version with non-free parts stripped.

Re-releasing without a version bump isn't nice.

> thus: if you ever come up with a solution that adds a suffix to the upstream
> version (and i would very much welcome such a feature), please allow for more
> possibilities than just "+dfsg".

Yes, I do intend to add such a feature.  The current solution of using
uversionmangle is conflating to ideas together that really shouldn't be.
I should really close the related Lintian bug since that's not the
approach I'd like to have advertised going forward.

I'd like to just add another directive to the options field specifying
what the dfsg suffix should be.

Cheers,
-- 
James
GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org>