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Re: Guidelines docs on ftp.debian.org.

  Miquel> It seems to me that having 3 fields, "Package", "Version" and
  Miquel> "Revision" is the way to go, not to stuff the revision field into
  Miquel> the version field.

That was the case until it the new scheme was announced, and later imposed,
by Ian J. Here's the relevant piece from the Guidelines (say `info debian
control control' at the shell prompt to get there):


   The `Version' field should be the version number of the package.
For most packages which are not written specifically for Debian, this
should be in the form

     Version: <original_version>-<debian_revision>

where `<original_version>' is the original package version number in
whatever form the original package uses and `<debian_revision>'
indicates which "debianisation" this is (this should usually be a plain
number or perhaps a two numbers separated by a full stop, and should be
incremented each time the package is changed or updated).

   Packages which are written specifically for Debian do not have a
debian_revision, and their version number should simply be version
(which should not contain any hyphens, to avoid confusion).




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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                              http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd