Hello Eric,

On Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 08:12:35AM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > just a quick note to let you know that I uploaded public-inbox to
> > Debian. The required review process by the ftp team was completed very
> > quickly and the public-inbox package already landed in Debian sid.
> 
> Awesome, thank you.  I guess the next release (bullseye) is
> starting to freeze.

For bullseye it's already too late, see
https://release.debian.org/bullseye/freeze_policy.html#soft

> I've been trying to get a new release out ASAP but there's too
> much left to do :<
> 
> > https://tracker.debian.org/news/1234849/accepted-public-inbox-160-1-all-source-into-unstable-unstable/
> 
> Any particular reason the package is 1.6.0-1 despite the
> 
> 	"* Include changes from upstream bugfix release 1.6.1"
> 
> change entry?  Anyways, no big deal and thanks again for all
> your work.

Funny you ask. I chose to do it that way because I expected that an
eventual 1.7.0 release won't include 1.6.1 as an ancestor and I thought
it a good idea to have my upstream branch to be fast-forward only.

Just before seeing your mail I already asked around for a nicer
solution in the corresponding Debian irc channel, maybe I just have to
accept a non-ff upstream branch. Shouldn't be a big deal.

Your mail is just another confirmation that the currently used scheme is
a bad idea. (Another is that the packaging page[1] nags that there is
another upstream release that should be packaged.)

Best regards
Uwe

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/public-inbox

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