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Re: Guidelines docs on ftp.debian.org.

You (Richard Kettlewell) wrote:
> >I don't know.  On the one hand, it seems like it would be easier to identify
> >"debian only" packages with -0, and "upstream maintainer maintains debian
> >package" as generally having -1.
> 
> If this is useful information to know, surely it should appear in the
> packages file in a readable way, rather than some arbitrary numeric
> code?  Assignment those meanings to -0 and -1 would stop people using
> the revision numbers on Debian-only packages to actually indicate
> changes in version - something that it's been established at least
> some want to do.

One thing I can't figure out is how dpkg knows the debian-revision field.
There used to be a "Revision" field in the control file, but dpkg now
tells me:

warning, in file `debian-tmp/DEBIAN/control' near line 15 package `sysvinit':
 obsolete `Revision' or `Package-Revision' field used

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

The guidelines do not mention the Package-Revision: field, but the sample-files
do. Help! :) [I think it would be good to restore the usage of that field]

Mike.
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