Re: Version numbers for, well, weird cases?

[Norbert Tretkowski <norbert@tretkowski.de>]

* Frank Küster wrote:
> 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.

Hmm... I'd use 0.9bpo1. Yes, it's incorrect, but we can't use 1.0~bpo1
yet.

> 0.99-really-1.0bpo1 would in principle work - but not if some
> package depends on (>= 1.0).

Then this dependency must be adjusted.

> 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...

0.34.1+20060219bpo1 is what I'd use here.

                Norbert