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Re: [Help] Versioning of a library



Scripsit Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>

> I'm the maintainer of libgtkdatabox-0.2.3.0-0.
[...]
> My guess is that there is an ABI change involved and thus I have to
> rename the package to libgtkdatabox-0.5.2.0-X .  My question is:
> What is the right choice for 'X' if I skipped several upstream
> versions inbetween?

Why do you have an -X component in the package name, if the 0.5.2.0 is
the full upstream version number? Seems superfluous to me.

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