On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 02:06:33AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > The package version uses a datestamp for the upstream version. As you > know, upstream started making formal releases where the version string > indicates the latest kernel version for which it is expected to > provide full feature coverage. [...] > Obviously, fixing this would require use of an epoch. Also, I don't > expect it to be worth fixing this for wheezy.
As you probably have already guessed, having to use an epoch is the main reason I haven't switched.... although both versioning schemes are still actively used/updated for every release. Hopefully everyone having a problem reading the version number have discovered that I put both version numbers in the package changelog for their convenience. i.e. * Imported Upstream version 3.6.0 (aka snapshot 20121001) A bigger deviation from upstream is IMHO the package name! Migrating the name from iproute to iproute2 would hopefully give us the possibility to start over with the version numbers without having to use an epoch! -- Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
