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

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