Package: developers-reference Version: 3.4.1 Severity: wishlist Hello,
In "5.11.2. NMUs and debian/changelog", it is suggested to version NMU by appending "+nmuN". It seems however that many people prefer to only use "+nmuN" on native packages; see discussion at: http://lists.debian.org/debian-newmaint/2009/05/msg00031.html I understand that +nmu1 is not a bad idea for debian native packages, where you wouldn't be able to tell if a passage from 1.0 to 1.0.1 is a new upstream verion or a NMU. However, it is unnecessary, and indeed it look ugly, on non-native packages. The simplest change to the Developer's Reference to document this could be adding a paragraph like the following before the paragraph "A special versioning scheme...": For non-native packages, many developers prefer to append ".N" instead of "+nmuN". For example, NMUs of a package with version "1.0-2" would have versions "1.0-2.1", "1.0-2.2" and so on. Ciao, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.29-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash developers-reference depends on no packages. Versions of packages developers-reference recommends: ii debian-policy 3.8.1.0 Debian Policy Manual and related d Versions of packages developers-reference suggests: ii doc-base 0.9.2 utilities to manage online documen -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
