On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:01:22AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 01 Nov 2005, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > I was surprised to discover that the standard rules for Debian > > revision numbers > > (maintainer revisions contain no dots; > > source NMUs contain one dots; > > binary NMUs contain two) > > are not in Policy, but only in the Developer's Reference. > > They are not even where they need to be toolwise, binary NMUs break strict > versioned dependencies hideously... > > > Should a policy patch be created? > > IMHO, Yes. IMHO you should also add that you are only to use numbers without > zero padding (not that the tools will break if you pad, AFAIK, but...), that > they must increase monotonically, that NMUs start with 1 and binary NMUs > start with 0.1 if there isn't a NMU version yet, or <NMU>.1 if there is one.
I presume you mean: "they should go up by one each version". Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
