Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?

2005-11-03 Thread Steve Langasek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 06:45:32PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > If I number it 1.2-0.1, it would mean it's no longer a native > package. Does that mean I should split it in an .orig.tar.gz and > a diff? On the contrary; Policy does not say that a nati

Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?

2005-11-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > How about numbering for native packages? People seem to be > disagreeing alot on how to do that: I won't touch that one. IMHO people can number diff-less packages whichever way they want to. > Should I add a debian reversion or not? Say the version is

Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?

2005-11-03 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:01:22AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > 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 an

Re: Add Debian revision number standards to policy?

2005-11-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005, Julian Gilbey wrote: > 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 n

Processed: Re: Bug#336342: Clarify permitted epoch values

2005-11-03 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#336342: Clarify permitted epoch values

2005-11-03 Thread Florian Weimer
retitle 336342 Clarify permitted epoch values thanks * Florian Weimer: > Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.6.2.1 > Severity: normal > > In section 5.6.12, the permitted epoch values are not specified > precisely. Large epochs tend to cause problems for some tools, for > example dpkg, whose beh