Re: Need Help - What to do on bad upstream release number ?

[Michael Ablassmeier <abi@grinser.de>]

hi,

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 03:38:43PM +0200, Laurent Vallar wrote:
> Sinatra 1.0 has been released and packaging is done : nothing more to
> do, trunk is ready...
> I should ask a DD to review SVN libsinatra-ruby but there is a big
> problem : latest versions were numbered 1.0.a then 1.0.b and now the
> release is ... 1.0 !
> 
> What to do in this case ? Ask upstream to fix release number or else
> do something to debian changelog ?

i think using an epoch here helps:

 http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version

bye,
    - michael