Re: binary package version numbers?

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

tony mancill wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Sep 11, 1999 at 02:20:07PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> > > We don't have a scheme which doesn't force other arches to
> > > rebuild beacuse of another arch build's mistake, right?
> > 
> > I think that we use -2.0.1 , meaning "a recompile of -2". I've seen
> > that quite often, don't know how official it is.
> 
> I think that this is pretty much equivalent to the following section from
> the Debian Developer's Reference:
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>                                        For instance, a recompile-only NMU
>    of the source package ``foo_1.3-1'' would be numbered
>    ``foo_1.3-1.0.1''. 

Thanks a bunch to both of you!
That's great news, I wonder why I never caught on to that.

Peter