Re: RFC: python-imgviz: Repository out of sync with Archive

On Fri, 16 Jan 2026, 14:17 Carsten Schoenert, <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Am 16.01.26 um 12:45 schrieb Arian Ott:
>
> >     Yes, that is what is typically done, unless you can contact the
> >     previous
> >     uploaders and get them to push their changes to the repository.
> >
> >
> > Thanks for the pointers. How would I document it in d/changelog? There
> > would be a gap.
>
> By usually importing every version (by using gpg import-dsc e.g.) that
> was uploaded to the Debian archive.
>

That helps a lot. Thanks. I haven't had that case before.



> The advantage doing it that way is you can later see the delta changes
> done in every upload. Sometime that is important.


Thats good to know.


> Also your "issue" with the gap of changelog entries isn't existing after
> these imports.


Fantastic, I was worried the changelog was broken.


Cheers,

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Arian Ott
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