Bart Martens wrote: > Now imagine that someone would do an NMU of dh-make-php. The right > version would be 0.2.3-0.1 according to Debian Policy.
Actually, policy doesn't say any such thing. That syntax was invented by the developer's reference. And it's IMHO dubious. Consider two packages: foo is native and at version 1.0 bar is at version 0.9-1 Now, NMU foo to fix a bug, and NMU bar, upgrading it to version 1.0. If you follow the developer's reference, you get: foo is "native" at version 1.0-0.1 bar is at version 1.0-0.1 Now how is debhelper supposed to tell these two cases apart? I can think of a few ways, but they're all fairly complicated and fragile. Policy is actually careful to set up the invarient that "-" anywhere in a version number means the package is not native. I don't know why the developers reference choses to ignore that. Is there something wrong with using a version number like "1.0.0.1" for native package NMUs? (Being careful to choose one that is well outside the normal range. "1.0.debian.1" if necessary.) -- see shy jo
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