Bug#542288: Version numbering: native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads
Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> 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).
Oh, sorry, you'd actually use +d60+1 (and then +d60+2, etc.) like you do
for backports.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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