Bug#405818: developers-reference: Please explicitly describe how to choose version numbers for NMU of debian native package

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@debian.org>]

Package: developers-reference
Severity: wishlist

Currently, section 5.11.2 states:

  If there is no debian-revision component in the version number then one
  should be created, starting at `0.1'.

So this looks like NMU of debian-native package should not be
debian-native package?
Or it should be debian native package, but it should only have version
string format that is usually used for non-native packages?
Or the cited text is not about debian-native packages at all, and for
NMUing debian-native packages, just '.1' should be added to existing
version string?

Some explicit explanation it the text will help.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (640, 'proposed-updates'), (640, 'stable'), (620, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (620, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable'), (550, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-k7
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.KOI8-R, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.KOI8-R (charmap=KOI8-R)