On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:18:32AM +0200, Amaya wrote: > Hello all, > > At work, we are making custom Debian packages and we need a special versioning > system so that apt does not try to replace our package with a newer upstream > one. > > I would like to know if there's a standard way to proceed, apart from setting > the debian version to customX, which is good, but doesn not deal with the fact > that dpkg will try to replace the package with a newer upstream one. > > Thanks in advance for any input or ideas.
I would suggest that you keep to the standard versioning scheme (adding your custom version number _after_ the debian version, and just place the packages on hold. If your packages are completely incompatible, you should probably just change the name of the package itself. -brad
