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Re: Package version numbers



On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:16:26 +0100, Christian PERRIER <bubulle@debian.org>
wrote:
> Quoting Raphael Hertzog (hertzog@debian.org):
> > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> > > Quoting Jakub Wilk (jwilk@debian.org):
> > > > I would paint the bikeshed the following color:
> > > > 0.8.51+dfsg1-0.1
> > > 
> > > Isn't that missing the fact that this is a t-p-u upload, which is
> > > indeed the start of a "wheezy" branch?
> > > 
> > > So something we were naming "+wheezy<foo>" in the past and which we
> > > now name "+deb70u1".
> > 
> > It's not really relevant because sid has already diverged and has a higher
> > (upstream) version.
> > 
> > So 0.8.51+dfsg1-0.1 is acceptable IMO.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> And the theoretical question of "what if sid hadn't diverged wrt
> upstream" is silly as this is a native package.
> 
> Steve, problem solved, then..:). We were bikeshedding a bit too much.

Yup, thanks! A case of “Pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire
compliqué ?” ;-) (“Why make things simple when they can be complicated?”)

An updated package is coming up shortly...

Regards,

Stephen

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