Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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".
Yes, that and some other little things like NMUs don't start in 0 ;-)
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Henrique Holschuh
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