[17:28] <arif-ali> Hi folks, got an interesting versioning question. sosreport (which I am maintaining) will be released on Monday, which I will be popping across to debian. sos has a SRU exception. I will be SRU'ing this version, now do I backport this version and wipe all the previous changelogs; or just bring in .orig,X and do minimal updates to the debian folder from a prior ubuntu revision or we bring the whole thing with minimal changes?
[17:34] <sudip> adrien: are you available to do a quick autopkgtest fix for esys-particle please... same problem with the slots
[18:02] <adrien> sudip: in two hours (preferably, ping me again, even if in 10 seconds :) )
[18:24] <sudip> dont worry adrien, I made the change now based on your change in adios2. tested locally and worked.
[19:48] <jbicha> arif-ali: both methods can be acceptable. I prefer making minimal debian/ changes and perhaps the SRU team might prefer that too
[19:49] <jbicha> Some changes are better than others. For instance, autopkgtest improvements are encouraged but switching to a new debhelper compat level is probably not ok
[19:52] <arif-ali> jbicha: thanks, I like the idea of minimal changes on top of a previous ubuntu release, I guess in that case it will not be based on the Debian package, hence we would have -0 instead of -1 before ubuntu
[19:58] <jbicha> yes
[19:58] <arif-ali> perfect, thank you :)
[20:47] <adrien> sudip: :)