Re: Bug#322359: gnats: FTBFS: unpacking fails - Please do not use a version number ending with '-0'
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 10:08:34AM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> Andreas Jochens <aj@andaco.de> wrote:
> > Policy seems to require that the numbers start with '-1'.
>
> Require is hardly true. If I recall correctly, and perhaps I'm a
> geezer in this respect, policy recommends that debian package numbers
> start with -1. It doesn't require that they do. In fact, tools have
> been designed to accommodate both 0 and 1 as the initial version. We
> do live in a computer world where ordinal numbers are a rule, not an
> exception.
>
> If the debian-policy makers enforce the no "-0" rule, I will upload a
> new version. But until I'm told otherwise, I'll continue to use "-0"
> as my initial package versions.
This is not debian-policy but developers-reference
(5.11.2. NMU version numbering) that mandate that
-0.1 is reserved from 'new upstream version in NMU'. This way the
maintainer can use -1 independently of whether a -0.1 release occurred.
I don't see much point in dpkg rejecting -0, since it is a Debian
specific practice. If -0 must be rejected then it should be done by
dak, not dpkg (imho).
I don't see much point either to force you to reupload -0 packages with
-1, though I would strongly advise starting with -1 in the future.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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