Re: Question about version

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:21:40AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Aug 2013, David Smith wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Planning to make a backport of liferea 1.8.15-1 from testing to
> > wheezy-backports.
> > 
> > Wheezy is now at version 7.1, so would it follow that my version should be:
> > 1.8.15-1~bpo71+1?
> > 
> > Or should it just be:
> > 1.8.15-1~bpo70+1?
> 
> Wheezy is just "Debian 7", and this includes all the point releases,
> so IMHO the logical thing to do is to drop the "0" in "70". That's
> what I did in gettext_0.18.3-1~bpo7+1 uploaded a few days ago.
[...]

But this is a lower version than 0.18.3-1~bpo60+1.  So you should not
do this if there is a chance that the same version will also be
backported to squeeze (squeeze-backports-sloppy) as well.

Ben.

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