Re: Backport version number question

["W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org>]

Quoting "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>:
> http://backports.debian.org/Contribute/ says:
>
> Append "~bpo${debian_release}+${build_int}" to the version number,
>
> does {debian_release} include the point release number?

No. Backports are constantly maintained over all point releases.

Note: Up to wheezy there was a pseudo point release number "0",
so it is "bpo70" for wheezy, but from jessie on the zero is
dropped, so just use "bpo8". dch --bpo probably does it right.

Cheers