Am Dienstag, 13. März 2007 schrieb Margarita Manterola: > On 3/13/07, Roman Müllenschläder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm packaging for debian right now and wanted to now if I may use a > > version number like: 1.0.8~rc1-1 ? > > If you use that number, the upstream version should be 1.0.8~rc1. Is > that the upstream number? If you want to have release candidates of > your _own_ package, you should do: 1.0.8-1~rc1
So the versions will be 1.0.8-1~rc1(2,3,4) ? > > My version of lintian is 1.23.22 and it gives error if I use this version > > number and I'm fearing these error prevent the package from beeing > > sponsored !? > > What's the error given by lintian? It gives: bad-version-number and bad-version-in-relation depends: > The versions for lintian (from packages.qa.debian.org) are: > > Stable: 1.23.8 > Testing: 1.23.28 > Unstable: 1.23.28 > > So, why are you using a version that's not the one in testing, nor the > one in stable? Because my laptop, where I'm building the packages on, is running Edgy ;) Maybe I should compile lintian by hand ... tried using sources from feisty but they need to much dependencies ... LG Roman