kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I intend to package gnuplotfortran whose upstream is available at > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnuplotfortran .The upstream released > sources whose version is 0.2.2-1 . > > My questions are > > 1) What would be the corresponding Debian version? Should it be > 0.2.2-1-1 or should i pretend the upstream's version is 0.2.2.1 and > name the debian version to be 0.2.2.1-1?
As far as I remember, 0.2.2-1-1 is a perfectly valid Debian version, the Debian revision will be the part after the last hyphen. > 3) Are there any other packages which have/had this problem > previously? How is/was it solved? My netenv package has this problem, and while back I solved it indeed by changing the upstream version. Meanwhile I was convinced that this wasn't necessary, but unfortunately I forgot when and where this was discussed. > The maint-guide currently is silent about this problem. But if there > is some other documentation available which helps in this regard, I > will be happy to read it. The question is whether it matters at all. I don't know whether any tool¹ actually discriminates between upstream version and Debian revision; dak does not when checking for NMUs. Regards, Frank ¹except editing things like the Debian changelog mode of Emacs... -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
