On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 07:51:09AM +0200, Thomas Koch wrote: > How would you format the upstream part of the packages version number? How > about 0.4+24+git+a5e5f9e? I wouldn't put the commit identifier in the package version at all. It isn't sortable, so clearly doesn't belong in a version string; it can be documented in the changelog instead. I'd put a date in the version. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@debian.org]