ProFTPD source for Debian
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This source is created by pre-stripping RFC documents generally
included in upstream tarballs. A good set of functional fixes taken
from upstream git repository are also included by means of quilt (see
/usr/share/doc/quilt/README.gz for details about the program). Debian
patches are named after the related bug ID on bugzilla.proftpd.org,
in order to simplify checking of merged changes at every new upstream
release: by comparing changelog.Debian and upstream NEWS files
superfluous patches are easily found.

Note that since 1.3.2, upstream git repository has a proper stable
branch which should be followed instead of master for useful fixes.

 -- Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>  Fri Jan  5 10:04:28 CET 2018

With 1.3.7a we introduced the extension +dfsg to the orig.tar.gz file to
document that the file we upload to Debian is modified. Unfortunately this gives
issues w/ version comparing: 1.3.8a+dfsg is considered to be an earlier version
than 1.3.8+dfsg: dpkg --compare-versions 1.3.8a+dfsg lt 1.3.8+dfsg . For the time
being we introduce a "." between minor number and letter to avoid this issue.
Starting with 1.3.9, we will use extension ~dfsg, which does not cause the issue.
I won't change the naming of the orig.tar.gz in the pristine-tar branch, simply
create a soft link to get the source package.

  -- Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>  Sat, 11 Nov 2023 23:28:15 +0100
