Re: Revision roll-over
Dale Scheetz writes:
>This is just a request for varification.
>
>As I understand it, revision number 0 is reserved for Debian-only
>packages, that is, packages who's upstream maintainer and Debian
>maintainer are the same person.
dpkg has to be the canonical Debian-only package, and has no revision
field; I've always reasoned from this that Debian-only packages have
no revision number, just a version number.
>This implies that when the upstream package goes from 1.13 to 1.14
>that the Debian package might go from 1.13-5 to 1.14-1
>
>Have I got this right?
That's what I've been doing...
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