Just wondering about packaging snapshots of a package. Ok, snapshots could be known as "backups". Here I am talking about pulling from say a Subversion repository and building a package.
For now I want to do this just to keep tabs on what upstream has planned. Not so much for unstable... I remember being a little bewildered by the version string in Debian. Is this OK? frodo$ apt-cache show irssi-snapshot | grep Version: Version: 0.8.6+cvs.20031114-1 And how does that compare to: frodo$ apt-cache show gcc-snapshot | grep Version: Version: 20051008-1 Is this documented somewhere? http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#s-f-Version Could be elaborated on with examples. Be good if the dates were iso8601 style: date --iso-8601=hours 2005-10-18T16+1000 But then they would be twice as long... Best wishes, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
