Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:01:22AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Nov 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> > I was surprised to discover that the standard rules for Debian
> > revision numbers
> > (maintainer revisions contain no dots;
> > source NMUs contain one dots;
> > binary NMUs contain two)
> > are not in Policy, but only in the Developer's Reference.
>
> They are not even where they need to be toolwise, binary NMUs break strict
> versioned dependencies hideously...
>
> > Should a policy patch be created?
>
> IMHO, Yes. IMHO you should also add that you are only to use numbers without
> zero padding (not that the tools will break if you pad, AFAIK, but...), that
> they must increase monotonically, that NMUs start with 1 and binary NMUs
> start with 0.1 if there isn't a NMU version yet, or <NMU>.1 if there is one.
I presume you mean: "they should go up by one each version".
Julian
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