Re: Version numbers for, well, weird cases?

[Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>]

Frank Küster wrote:
> 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.

Norbert told me that there are plans to activate '~' support in
backports.org 'dak'. This means that you could upload it with version
"1.0~bpo1". Currently however, such upload are probably just rejected.

> 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...

0.34.2+20060322~bpo1 would be nicer, no? ;)

Greetings,
	Reinhard