Bug#542288: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Russ Allbery wrote:

> A scheme that would always satisfy this would be to use +<letter><version>
> for stable/security updates where <version> is the Debian version being
> targeted similar to how that's done for backports (so 50 for lenny or 60
> for squeeze), and <letter> is some letter between b and n.  (Alternately,
> we could use a different convention for NMUs than +nmu, but that's so
> self-explanatory that it would be nice to stick with it.)

Interesting.  +d60 for "Debian 6.0". :)

What happens when there are more than 10 updates for a single Debian
version?  Maybe that's not worth worrying about --- such a package is
either horribly buggy or should be using a more sensible versioning
scheme (e.g., ia32-libs and clamav-data just use the date).