Re: Custom package versioning

[Bradley Bell <bradleyb@u.washington.edu>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Amaya wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> At work, we are making custom Debian packages and we need a special versioning
> system so that apt does not try to replace our package with a newer upstream
> one.
> 
> I would like to know if there's a standard way to proceed, apart from setting
> the debian version to customX, which is good, but doesn not deal with the fact
> that dpkg will try to replace the package with a newer upstream one.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any input or ideas.

I would suggest that you keep to the standard versioning scheme (adding your
custom version number _after_ the debian version, and just place the
packages on hold.
If your packages are completely incompatible, you should probably just
change the name of the package itself.

-brad