Version numbers for, well, weird cases?

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Hi,

I was thinking about backporting po-debconf, which is trivial by
itself.   However, it's version number in testing and sid is "1.0" (it's
a native package), and I'm unsure about the version number to take.
0.99-really-1.0bpo1 would in principle work - but not if some package
depends on (>= 1.0).  That's a general problem with native packages,
much less with ordinary ones.

And it depends on: intltool-debian (>= 0.34.1+20060220).  testing has
0.34.2+20060322 which is an other example of a difficult version
number. 0.34.2+20060321-reall20060322bpo1 is formally correct, but hey,
*that* ugly...

I guess I'll just not backport them and instead install them directly
from testing, which works fine without problems.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)