Re: Page explaning naming of Debian packages?

[Ralf Treinen <treinen@free.fr>]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:05:12PM +0200, David MENTRE wrote:

> Is there a page somewhere explaning the naming scheme of Debian
> packages?

Debian Policy, and most of the current practices are documented in
the developers reference. Both documents are available at

http://www.debian.org/doc

> I'm trying to understand version like:
>   ocaml-reins 0.1a-1+b2
>   facile 1.1-6.1+b2
>   ocaml-expat 0.9.1+debian1-4+b1

If you are referring to the +b1 part : these are binary NMUs, see

http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#binary-only-nmu

-Ralf.