"Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run

'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'

git-svn-id: svn://anonscm.debian.org/ddp/manuals/trunk/developers-reference@702 313b444b-1b9f-4f58-a734-7bb04f332e8d

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index dec8dcd9e62012e92d091cc5292f9fdd06f2a514..48e9be58b9830e8b07a2737bf629afa2112a6365 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -49,8 +49,10 @@ developers-reference (2.4.99) frozen unstable; urgency=low
     changes file"
   * "Uploading to frozen": new section, almost straight from Brian White
     (hope you don't mind!) -- isn't that topical?
+  * "Interim releases": if you NMU a new upstream version (0.1), run 
+    'dpkg-buildpackage -sa'
 
- -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Nov 1998 01:53:22 -0500
+ -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org>  Mon,  9 Nov 1998 01:55:22 -0500
 
 developers-reference (2.4.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
 

diff --git a/developers-reference.sgml b/developers-reference.sgml
index 7d80cba7723ca60208bd399b4e5702b86cf6ba30..da075a0665fd913370b4ea5bb02ece71995bff83 100644 (file)
--- a/developers-reference.sgml
+++ b/developers-reference.sgml
@@ -1046,7 +1046,10 @@ If it is absolutely necessary for someone other than the usual
 maintainer to make a release based on a new upstream version then the
 person making the release should start with the <var/debian-revision/
 value `0.1'.  The usual maintainer of a package should start their
-<var/debian-revision/ numbering at `1'.
+<var/debian-revision/ numbering at `1'.  Note that if you do this,
+you'll have to invoke <prgn>dpkg-buildpackage</prgn> with the <tt/-sa/
+switch to force the build system to pick up the new source package
+(normally it only looks for Debian revisions of '0' or '1').
        <p>
 Maintainers other than the usual package maintainer should make as few
 changes to the package as possible, and they should always send a