Re: versioning

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
>one of my packages, nbd, is in the archive now as version "nbd_14-1". This
>version is derived from the filename of the upstream tarball, which is
>"nbd.14.tar.gz", as downloaded from his personal page at a university.
>
>However, upstream has changed to using sourceforge now, and in the process
>changed his versioning system. Right now, the upstream version is
>"1.2". Which, of course, will not reach the archive -- or even if it
>_would_ reach the archive, I doubt dpkg will accept it as "newer".
>
>What should I do to handle this "the right way"?

You should use an epoch, so version it as 1:1.2-1. See policy section 4.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]