On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 08:00:23AM -0400, Dave Steele wrote: > Do you have a source for that? I was told otherwise before. This is what defines a Debian native package. Here's why it's stupid for non-native packages: Upstream: 1.0 Debian package number: 1.0 Now, when yo update it, you'll have to do something like 1.0+1 for each upload after. Which sucks. This also means everything will think this string is the *UPSTREAM* version number, which is really a disaster. In addition, we use pristine (and hash-identical) tarballs with upstream releases. You can't do this with 3.0 (native), without being upstream. I'm all for allowing native packages, but newbies shouldn't be using them to package software with an upstream. Cheers, Paul -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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