reassign 560287 developers-reference thanks Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> writes:
> Package: debian-policy > Version: 3.8.3.0 > Severity: wishlist > The proper use of dfsg, ds or debian as version number suffix in case of > repackagaged upstream tarballs is not documented anywhere. It's also not > clear, wether the suffix should be appended with a point, a dash or a > tilde. I think this is a devref thing, so I'm taking the liberty of reassigning it accordingly. Policy doesn't care what string you use, since it's not an interface and software doesn't rely on the value of the string (other than Lintian, but that's a special case). Lintian's recommendation is to use a + because it sorts before a period if upstream adds an additional level of version number. Some people use a tilde instead, which also works but has slightly different effects and can't easily be used if you already uploaded the unmunged version. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
