Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:28:29PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote in debian-devel:
> 
> > These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go
> > into testing. The official way is to upload also a package to
> > testing. To upload a package to testing (or:
> > testing-proposed-updates, this are just synonyms; tpu in short),
> > it is necessary that the version number of the upload is smaller
> > than the current installed package in unstable, and larger than
> > the current installed package in testing. 
[...] 
> What version numbers are usually used?

Common practise seems to be keep using normale versioning for sid
and 1.2.3-4.sarge.1 for tpu.
                  cu andreas