Re: Two sets of packages for slink and potato. How to version?

[Martin Bialasinski <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

>> "SB" == Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@debian.org> writes:

SB> The problem is the versioning. How to choose the version numbers
SB> in the two sets so that users will automatically get the potato
SB> package when they will choose to replace 'stable' by 'unstable'
SB> (or when potato will become stable).

I'd use the NMU version scheme for the stable packages.

unstable: 1.2.3-1      1.2.3-2
stable:   1.2.3-0.9    1.2.3-1.9

SB> I've read
SB> <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/ch-versio
SB> ns.html> . Should I choose an epoch of 1 for all the potato
SB> packages?

By all means, no.

Ciao,
	Martin