This project packages the (Unison Code Manager)[https://unison-lang.org/] for the Debian and Debian-based distributions, such as Ubuntu.

Releaseing a new version

1. Update the version in the debian/changelog file. The easiest way to do this is to use the dch command from the devscripts package. For example:

[email protected] dch -v 0.51.0-1 "New upstream release"

which will create a new entry in debian/changelog that starts with something like this:

unisonweb (0.5.20~trunk+2024041702) unstable; urgency=low

This version string previx should be the same as the unison release number. A trunk or unreleased version should use the next version as the version number and a tilde, as above to add some version information to differentiate it from other prerelease versions.

Details about how debian sorts version numbers can be found in (The Debian Policy Manual)[https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-version].

You can use dpkg to verify that two versions compare they way you expect with some command like:

dpkg --compare-versions 0.5.20~trunk+2024041702 lt 0.5.20 && echo "true" || echo "false"

or

dpkg --compare-versions 0.5.20~trunk+2024041702 '<' 0.5.20 && echo "true" || echo "false"

2. Commit the changes to either the unstable or stable branch and push to github.