Bug#542288: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads
I believe there is widespread agreement in this bug that Policy should
document the +bN standard for binNMUs and the +nmuN standard for NMUs of
native packages. I believe it should also document the N.N standard for
NMUs of non-native packages, since people don't seem inclined to change to
+nmu and there's probably no reason to do so. The stable release managers
at DebConf seemed amenable to switching to a standard of +sNN where NN is
the Debian major and minor release versions for updates of packages in
stable to address the mostly theoretical concern of ordering of updates if
the code names don't sort neatly. If the security team agrees, that
should also be documented.
I'm setting this as the summary of this bug and tagging it proposal, since
I think it's just waiting for someone to write wording now.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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