Bug#542288: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads
Le Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 02:07:06PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> 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.
Dear all,
here is a patch to section 5.6.12 (Version), that inserts an explanation of the
convention to indicate native packages (no hyphens), NMUs (+nmun and .n), and
binary NMUs (+bn), after the description of the three components of the version
numbers (epoch, upstream and debian), and before the explanation of now numbers
are compared.
I hope it reflects the conclusion of this discussion, but please tell me
how to improve or correct it.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
>From 0b39f6f60c5a768bb351affe31ba43d33fb24b0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:44:26 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Document how version numbers indicate NMUs and native
packages.
Closes: #542288
---
policy.sgml | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 38f2096..a556820 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -3211,6 +3211,32 @@ Package: libc6
</p>
<p>
+ In the Debian archive, version numbers convey the following information:
+ <list>
+ <item>
+ The absence of <var>debian_revision</var>, and therefore of
+ hyphen in the version number, indicates that the package is
+ native.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <var>debian_version</var> numbers ending by <tt>.</tt> followed
+ by a number indicate a NMU (non-maintainer upload) of
+ non-native package.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <var>upstream_version</var> numbers of native packages ending
+ by <tt>+nmu</tt> followed by a number indicate a NMU.
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <var>upstream_version</var> numbers of native packages or
+ <var>debian_revision</var> numbers of non-native packages
+ ending by <tt>+b</tt> followed by a number indicate a binary
+ NMU.
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
When comparing two version numbers, first the <var>epoch</var>
of each are compared, then the <var>upstream_version</var> if
<var>epoch</var> is equal, and then <var>debian_revision</var>
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1.7.5.4
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