Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?
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.
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