Kevin Coyner wrote: > During a recent upgrade of my Debian Sid box, I noticed the > following changelog entry: > > f-spot (0.2.2-0ubuntu1) feisty; urgency=low > > * Update to 0.2.2 upstream > > Perhaps I've already missed a discussion on this. If so, I'd > appreciate a link/pointer so that I can read up. But if not, then > are their guidelines or policy statements somewhere that explain > how and when Ubuntu releases are incorporated into Debian? > > I maintain a handful of Debian packages and am genuinely curious > about this and am not trying to start a heated debate. Hi Kevin, (another Kevin here) I am pretty sure there is no formal policy describing what to do about version numbers containing the substring "ubuntu" (or that of any other derived distribution). As far as I can see, in practice having "ubuntu" entries in the Debian changelog is tolerated. This commonly happens when the Debian and Ubuntu maintainers are the same persons, or the Debian maintainers pull from the Ubuntu maintainer's work. I imagine that having a version number containing "ubuntu" in the actual package uploaded to Debian is discouraged. I only found one package in Sid at the moment that does this: update-manager, version 0.42.2ubuntu22-7. I think this is because Ubuntu is upstream for this package. best regards, -- Kevin B. McCarty <kmccarty@princeton.edu> Physics Department WWW: http://www.princeton.edu/~kmccarty/ Princeton University GPG: public key ID 4F83C751 Princeton, NJ 08544
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