On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Ludovico Cavedon
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:14 PM, Magnus Holmgren <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On lördagen den 16 maj 2009, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>> When adding a dfsg or whatever suffix, always use ~ to avoid problems like
>>> the one Jan pointed out. So your version would be 2.2~rc3~dfsg1, and then
>>> you bump to 2.2~rc3+hg123~dfsg1.
>>
>> However, that won't work if you have already uploaded e.g. version 1.2-3 of a
>> package, and then somebody files a bug that the tarball contains some
>> non-free file, and you'd like to upload 1.2~dfsg-1 to fix it without waiting
>> for a new upstream release.
>
> Yes, I agree with that (and also with
> http://lintian.debian.org/tags/dfsg-version-with-period.html). dfsg it
> is something that comes *after* the upstream release.

I mean: repackaging for dfsg compliance is something that comes after
the upstream release, so "+dfsg1" is the right one.

My problem is how to deal with "hg375" in combination with "+dfsg1".

Thanks,
Ludovivo


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