Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 16 Jan 2019 at 10:46:58 (-0500), Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:51:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 01/16/2019 07:58 AM, songbird wrote: > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. > > > > Synapti

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-17 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:46:58AM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:51:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 01/16/2019 07:58 AM, songbird wrote: > > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > > > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository.

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/16/2019 09:46 AM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: I have yet to encounter a "dfsg" repack that changes the functionality of the package, though. So, in that regard your statement is correct. Good. Makes life simpler. Thanks.

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:51:27AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 01/16/2019 07:58 AM, songbird wrote: > > Richard Owlett wrote: > > > > > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. > > > Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . > > > The current upstrea

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/16/2019 07:58 AM, songbird wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. Where is that n

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread songbird
Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. > Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . > The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . > > I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. > Where is that numbering scheme described? > > M

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 1/16/19, Curt wrote: > On 2019-01-16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: >> >> I don't know what "dfsg" is but "b" means BinNMU - Binary Non-Maintainer >> Upload. This usually means that the package is recompiled because of >> changed version of dependency(es). > > “+dfsg.N” and “+ds.N“ are a conventio

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Owlett
On 01/16/2019 06:37 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-01-16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: On 1/16/19 1:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . I don't un

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Curt
On 2019-01-16, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 1/16/19 1:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. >> Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . >> The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . >> >> I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+

Re: Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Georgi Naplatanov
On 1/16/19 1:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. > Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . > The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . > > I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. > Where is that numbering sch

Interpreting package version number

2019-01-16 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. Where is that numbering scheme described? My goal is to understand (from upstre