release tags during review

Wart wart at kobold.org
Thu Jul 13 22:26:09 UTC 2006


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Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>>>"w" == wart  <wart at kobold.org> writes:
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> 
> w> Is it allowed to use 0.n release tags during a package review, only
> w> to change it to '1' once the package has been approved and
> w> imported?
> 
> It is commonly done by a couple of people.  It violates the naming
> guidelines, and if I didn't trust the packager I would want to see a
> package that meets the naming guidelines before approving.
> 
> I wouldn't really recommend it.  Is there some reason why the package
> imported into extras has to start with release 1?

No particular reason, other than I have a handful of packages ready for
review that are already using 0.n.  It might make it a little easier to
distinguish changes made during the review from change made after the
review in the changelog entries, but that's not very important.

- --Mike
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