>>>>> "Henrique" == Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Henrique> On Sun, 04 Feb 2001, Brian May wrote:
>> Although for native packages (which should not already have a
>> Debian revision number), -# should probably be appended
>> instead, so the version stays the same.
Henrique> No. That is the same as adding a Debian revision (native
Henrique> packages are forbidden to have '-' in their version
Henrique> strings, UNLESS there is another '-' in there defining a
Henrique> debian revision field).
No! I mean for binary deb packages only, where a rebuild is required,
eg. for a new version of the package.
So, the maintainer would upload
x-0.5.7.tar.gz
x-0.5.7.dsc
x-0.5.7_i386.deb
however, when the autobuilder realizes that this needs rebuilding, eg
for a new version of libc6, it creates
x-0.5.7-1_i386.deb
instead of
x-0.5.7_i386.deb
(not allowed; apt-get wont down-load it as the version is the same)
or
x-0.5.7.0.1_i386.deb
(changing the version number like this is stupid, and not even required.)
this is no different to the autobuilder playing around with the Debian
revision number for non-native packages.
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Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
