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



On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 04:01:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > 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)
> 
> Is this widespread enough to be worth describing?  It's kind of hard to
> describe.

I for one had assumed that there was no difference between -deb9u1 and
~deb9u1, so I'd like to see it documented.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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