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Re: How to get package in main with the same version to upgrade over a mentors.debian.net version?



Hello Geert,

* Geert Stappers <stappers@stappers.nl> [2004-06-08 15:08]:
[...] 
> > But if the NMU is a new upstream version 1.2, then the correct NMU
> > version is 1.2-0.1.  This is in the Debian Developer's Reference:
> > 
> >  "If it is absolutely necessary for someone other than the usual main-
> >  tainer to make a release based on a new upstream version then the person
> >  making the release should start with the debian-revision value `0.1'."
> > 
> >  -- DDR 5.11.4.1: Source NMU version numbering
> 
> Okay, that reads like:
>  If there is no offical Debian maintainer yet, then use -0.1.
> 
> Also there is no harm in that it looks a like a NMU,
> it _says_ there is no one in Debian maintaining the package.

no, the version have nothing to do with this. you cannot read out of the
version, if the package is from an official maintainer or not and if it
is an official debian archive.
regards nico
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