Julien Valroff <julien@debian.org> wrote on 2011-03-20 21:48: > The best I have found is to use something like: > <latest_upstream_release>+gitYYYYMMDD.<githash> Please be aware, that "+" is not the optimal connector. Try dpkg --compare-versions and see: a) 1.2.0 is less than 1.2.0+git2011 b) 1.2.0 is greater than 1.2.0~git2011 The version b) is the better way. So please use "~" as connector. --- Have a nice day. Joachim (Germany)