On 1/16/19 1:22 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm running Stretch and have just installed Tcl from repository. > Synaptic reports the installed version is 8.6.6+dfsg-1+b1 . > The current upstream version is 8.6.9 . > > I don't understand what "+dfsg-1+b1" is telling me. > Where is that numbering scheme described? >
Hi, I don't know what "dfsg" is but "b" means BinNMU - Binary Non-Maintainer Upload. This usually means that the package is recompiled because of changed version of dependency(es). HTH Kind regards Georgi