Re: Backport version number question

["Karl O. Pinc" <kop@meme.com>]

On Thu, 04 Feb 2016 17:18:50 +0100
"W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.  (Perhaps the wording could be changed from "release" to
"major_version", or some other text in order to clarify this.)

Regards,


Karl <kop@meme.com>
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