Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?

[Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>]

Geert Stappers wrote:
> Matt Brubeck wrote:
> > Geert Stappers wrote:
> >
> > > Gee, I real need to find back that document that wrote to use
> > >
> > >  1.0-0.1, 1.0-0.2, 1.0-0.3 etc for non official debian packages.
> >
> > I don't think this is a good idea, because those numbers are used
> > for non-maintainer uploads.
>
> Relax.
> Offical Debian package numbers start with x.y.z-1, never as x.y.z-0

audacity (1.1.99pre3-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

  * new upstream, hopefully closes: #213193, #194509
  * recompiled with newer libs, closes: #223248, #220365, #221176
  * NMU

 -- Torsten Werner <twerner@debian.org>  Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:40:24 +0100

(This is from the package I currently maintain.)