Re: versioning

[racke@linuxia.de (Stefan Hornburg Racke)]

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

> 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"?

Use epochs (1:1.2-1 instead of 1.2-1). 

Ciao
        Racke

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