Hi,
>>"Patrick" == Patrick Ouellette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Patrick> I found no mention in the web site's policy manual of
Patrick> version numbering.
That is because t is in the packaging manual. Debian Policy
Manual is a little bit of a misnomer in that policy is actually
spread over a number of authoritative documents; the packaging manual
being one of them.
Patrick> If policy is not created/changed to handle this, we are
Patrick> doomed to revisit it.
I do not think policy need necessarly mandate anything
here. It can be left up to the maintianer to use either epochs,
suffix previous-version.99.X or something, use pre and release, or
use -0pre as they see fit.
I still think that pre-releases are not upstrem releases, they
are merely Debian maintainers releasing early, releasing often, and
the use of the -0 debian revision is legal under current policy;
however, if an explicit mention is deemed important, we may move to
amend policy to do so.
manoj
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