[2018-12-31 09:20] Carlos Maddela <e7ap...@gmail.com> > > [ Dmitry Bogatov ] > > Looks fine. Uploaded. But what does +orig means in version? > > > > When I took over as maintainer, I wanted to know why the project's > original tarball in Debian differed from that of the one available > upstream. I found that they only differed in the way that the top level > directory was named. From what I gather, this was necessary for Debian's > earlier build system, as documented here: > https://wiki.debian.org/Packaging/Intro. See Q&A for "do we need to > repack the original tarball if it doesn't contains a properly named > foo-1.0 folder?" Since, it's no longer necessary to repack the original > tarball, I thought it would be best to revert to using the original > upstream tarball without any changes. However, the only way I could do > so was to upload it with a higher version number, hence the +orig. If in > the unlikely event that a new upstream version were to be released, the > +orig can be dropped once again.
I see. Thank you. May I suggest you to put this wonderful explanation into `debian/README.source'. It may save trouble for future maintainer or save you from questions from another sponsor :)