Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> How about numbering for native packages? People seem to be
> disagreeing alot on how to do that:
I won't touch that one. IMHO people can number diff-less packages whichever
way they want to.
> Should I add a debian reversion or not? Say the version is
> 1.2, and I do an NMU, would I call it:
IMHO, we should never change a diff-less package to a diff-based one in an
NMU (unless the NMU is for the explict objective of doing just that...), the
maintainer won't like it. So tack the usual NMU/binary NMU .NMU and
.NMU.BINNMU suffixes to the end, no dashes.
> - 1.2.0.1
> - 1.2.1
Yes, these ones are fine, AFAIK.
> If I number it 1.2-0.1, it would mean it's no longer a native
> package. Does that mean I should split it in an .orig.tar.gz and
> a diff?
You'd have to. So don't do it.
> What about binNMU's for those packages?
I have no experience trying to bin-NMU a diff-less package, I don't know how
well it works. I will wait for someone with more knowledge to step in.
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