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

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 at 14:08:05 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> +                <replaceable>upstream_version</replaceable> components in
> +                native packages ending in <literal>+nmu</literal> followed
> +                by a number indicate an NMU of a native package.

I thought 1.2.3-4+nmu1 was also allowed as an alternative to 1.2.3-4.1?
But perhaps that's non-standard (it's certainly redundant).

> +                <replaceable>N</replaceable> is the major version number
> +                of the Debian stable release to which the package was
> +                package uploaded directly to a stable release, and the

You have some duplicated lines here I think.

One rarer case is missing here:

1.2.3-4~deb9u1
	Everything in 1.2.3-4 from unstable was in fact needed in Debian
	9, so it was simply rebuilt for Debian 9 and uploaded there
	(prominent examples: firefox-esr, intel-microcode)

Regards,
    S