Arnaud Vandyck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Brossier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I am working on packages from cvs upstream sources. How should I name > > their debian version ? I give a few examples below. > > > > Is there a spec for this somewhere ? > > In the policy? > > /usr/share/doc/debian-policy/policy.txt.gz > > 3.2.1. Version numbers based on dates > ------------------------------------- > > ... > However, in some cases where the upstream version number is based > on a date (e.g., a development "snapshot" release) the package > management system cannot handle these version numbers without > epochs. For example, dpkg will consider "96May01" to be greater > than "96Dec24". > > To prevent having to use epochs for every new upstream version, the > version number should be changed to the following format in such > cases: "19960501", "19961224". It is up to the maintainer whether > he/she wants to bother the upstream maintainer to change the > version numbers upstream, too.
I started a thread on -policy recently where I suggested this was bad and should be something like 0.19960501 instead, to avoid epochs when upstream finally declares a 1.0 release. Peter
