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Re: Page explaning naming of Debian packages?



Hello Stefano and Ralf,

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 10:07, Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> wrote:
> This one got through.

So using the same From: email (dmentre@linux-france.org), my emails go
through with Gmail but are blocked with my usual provider, free.fr.
And of course I don't have any error messages. :-(

>> Is there a page somewhere explaning the naming scheme of Debian
>> packages?
>
> Naming scheme and versions are 2 different things. The version is
> explained in the policy, see Ralf comment for the trailing +bXX part.

Ok. Thank you Ralf and Stefano for the pointers and explanations. In
fact, I am more interested in the versions than in the naming scheme,
sorry for not using the correct terms. I'm going to read those
references and keep them at hand.

> Regarding naming note that you are quoting *source* package name,
> which are not necessarily the same as *binary* package names.

I am aware of that, trying to follow the list for a few months now[1].
:-) However this is raising another question: I assume that if the
source packages are the same (i.e. same version number) between Ubuntu
and Debian, the derived binary packages will be the same. Is this a
correct assumption?

Yours,
d.

[1] But thank you for the pointer on Debian Ocaml policy.


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