hi roman, On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 20:23 +0100, Roman Müllenschläder wrote: > Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Margarita Manterola: > > On 3/13/07, Roman Müllenschläder <info@prodeia.de> wrote: > > > I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a > > > version number like: 1.0.8~rc1-1 ? > > > > If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1. Is > > that the upstream number? If you want to have release candidates of > > your _own_ package, you should do: 1.0.8-1~rc1 > > So the versions will be 1.0.8-1~rc1(2,3,4) ? i would disagree and suggest your original versioning scheme with 1.0.8~rc1-1. or, if upstream isn't using that particular naming scheme, you might want to make it clearer with 1.0.8~somethingthatidentifiesyou1-1 or something similar. my rationale is that if you do 1.0.8-1~rc1, you're in effect saying that it *is* upstream version 1.0.8, (and a debian revision << -1). but if you do 1.0.8~foo-1, you're saying that it's << upstream version 1.0.8. but that's just imho, maybe there are arguments for doing it the other way as well. sean
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