[Dehs-devel] libxml-sax-perl: New upstream version available

[Martín Ferrari]

On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:

>  > >    opts="uversionmangle=s/(?=$)/+dfsg/"  http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-SAX .*/XML-SAX-([\d].*)\.tar\.gz  debian debian/repack.pl
>  > >  -- Found the following matching hrefs:
>  > >      /CPAN/authors/id/G/GR/GRANTM/XML-SAX-0.16.tar.gz
>  > >  Newest version on remote site is 0.16+dfsg, local version is 0.16+dfsg
>  > >   => Package is up to date
>  > >  -- Scan finished
>  >
>  > Please read the section "Debian repackaging (a.k.a. trust what uscan
>  > says)" from DEHS' wiki page[1]. Although it is a bug please consider
>  > what the wiki says about upstream's tarball not really being dfsg.
>
>  Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks. I'll switch to dversionmangle in the future.

I don't think this is correct.Firstly, DEHS is doing the wrong thing
by removing dsfg and therefore assuming things that uscan don't. Also,
I see the uversionmangle as correct because when downloading the
repack script takes care of making it dfsg-free. Also it makes life
easier to everybody, because if we used the dversionmangle the
svn-inject script will use incorrect versions for the
branches/upstream tags. I would really prefer to keep our current
practise; DEHS can easily not strip dfsg (and understand that some
maintainers have a clue :)), or strip it also in the upstream version.

-- 
Martín Ferrari