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Re: Guidelines docs on ftp.debian.org.

You (Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca) wrote:
> 
> I think we should have a revision field. I see the following advantages
>  
> 	* consistency as all our package names will look similar; this is
> 	  quite a goal for a distribution 
> 
> 	* easier handling for parsing etc
> 
> 	* safer design: I use -revision on debian-only packages because I 
> 	  know how easy it it to screw in the package *management*, as 
> 	  opposed to the package *content*. Why should I increase the
> 	  version number if the content hasn't changed but only the
> 	  packaging?

You are forgetting packages that are _both_ upstream and debian packages
at the same time. Like sysvinit and minicom, both of which I maintain.
I released sysvinit-2.58 as "sysvinit-2.58-1.tar.gz" to the world. Man
did I get a lot of complaints from maintainers of other Linux distributions
that also tag their own revision number after the rest. And right
they are; sysvinit-2.58-1-2.rpm ?

Sysvinit-2.59 will be named "sysvinit-2.59.tar.gz" and "sysvinit-2.59.deb".
If there is a debian-only change (say in the rules file, whatever) there
will be a sysvinit-2.59-2, etc. As soon as there is a more general change
I'll bump up the version number to sysvinit-2.60.

You can't generalize this, I'm afraid.

Mike.
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