Re: binNMU version detection

2006-01-23 Thread Steve Langasek
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 02:42:54PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Later, Steve Langasek wrote: > > The primary aim of this change was to address the fact that there was no > > consistent numbering scheme that satisfies the constraint > > binNMU < security NMU < source NMU. > The problems with t

Re: binNMU version detection

2006-01-19 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How did bin-NMU numbers work for the old numbering scheme on native > packages? In a Complicated Way. Essentially, the debian revision and NMU revision were filled in with 0s (which were, accordingly, not supposed to be used in normal version numbers). >What prohibit

Re: binNMU version detection

2006-01-18 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:54:00PM -0600, Ken Bloom wrote: > > There's also no documentation of this numbering scheme: does it differ when > > applied to a {native, non-native} package? A {maintainer upload, NMU}? > > So actually I can't write a fix, period. > How did bin-NMU numbers work for t

Re: binNMU version detection

2006-01-18 Thread Ken Bloom
Where did the rest of this discussion come from? I can't find it here on debian-devel, but I assume it has something to the patch that I posted to debian-devel, and later to debian-dpkg at http://lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg/2006/01/msg00045.html Nathanael Nerode wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: >