Bug#607363: developers-reference: Wrong recommendations for "forked" NMUs
Package: developers-reference
Version: 3.4.4
Severity: normal
Hi!
The last paragraph of section 5.11.2. NMUs and debian/changelog recommends
to suffix the version for a "forked" NMU (e.g. security uploads or an
upload to t-p-u) with +debXYuZ . However, this practice seems quite
unknown:
$ wget -q -O -
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/source/Sources.gz|zgrep ^Version:|grep -c +deb[0-9][0-9]u
1
$ wget -q -O - http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/squeeze/main/source/Sources.gz|zgrep ^Version:|grep -c +squeeze
12
Futhermore lintian warns when using +deb60u1, and it seems to confuse the
bts a bit. See for example the version graph #603456, placing testings
nagiosgrapher/1.7.1-2+deb60u1 above unstables nagiosgrapher/1.7.1-2.1, I'm
wondering wether this recomendation should be changed.
Best regards,
Alexander
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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