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



On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 03:45:23PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> The problem is the versioning. How to choose the version numbers in the two 
> sets so that users will automatically get the potato package when they will 
> choose to replace 'stable' by 'unstable' (or when potato will become stable).
> 
> I've read <http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/packaging.html/ch-versio
> ns.html>. Should I choose an epoch of 1 for all the potato packages?
In general, epochs are Considered Dangerous (for reasons I don't really
understand -- but I assume that they are good).  I'd suguest subtracting .01
from the debian-version and concatinating '.slink' to the end (somthing like
1.0-0.99.slink); that seems to be standard pratice.

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