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Re: No upstream version, et al



On 29-Dec-1998, Anthony Wong <hajime@asunaro.ml.org> wrote:
> Hi Debian developers,
> 
> I'm still very new in creating Debian packages, so here are two of
> my silly questions :)
> 
> Q1: What should be the version of a package if the upstream source does
>     not have a version number? Should I use yymmdd or yyyymmdd as the
>     version?

Considering it's almost 1999 yyyymmdd might be a better choice.

You should convince the upstream author to add version numbers,
however. 


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