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Re: Version number adjustment needed?



Hi!

* Thomas Preud'homme <robotux@celest.fr> [110623 11:37]:

> > Now, if i build my orig-Tarball and exclude the binaries, do I have to
> > append something to the version string to mark that I modified the
> > source tarball?
> Usually we use upstreamversion+dfsg1-1.

dfsg is used when the tarball was modified to satisfy the Debian Free
Software Guidelines.  If the modification was not strictly necessary,
but is convenient, using plain "debian" instead of dfsg is quite common,
and makes IMHO Much more sense.

Best Regards,
  Alexander


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