Hi, On 30-05-16 09:42, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 12:40:32PM +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: >> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 12:00:28AM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: >>>>> e.g. if you have a package 1.0 and add a complete branch update as a patch >>>>> (or upgrade to a snapshot) one should do a 1.0+gitYYYDDMM-1 or whatever >>>>> format >>>>> you choose. Not 1.0-15 or so. >>>> Here the question is "if you package unreleased changes, should they go to >>>> orig.tar or to debian.tar, am I right? >>> It boils down to that, but it's not that strict. I just want the version >>> of the package be correct. >> Yeah, and my point is "what version is correct one"? :) > > It depends on the circumstance: > > 1.0+gitYYYMMDD-1 or ~rXXXX or so or 1.1~gitYYYMMDD-1 or 1.1~rc-1 or whataver. > > In my gcc example this should have clearly been 5.4.0~rc1-1 instead of > 5.3.1-21. > if it 's actually 5.4.0 rc1.
Just one data point. Several times already my Debian patches triggered a new upstream release. Now what is the correct version number? Paul
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