On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:14:04 +0300, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hi -mentors!
Hello,
IANADD, nor a mentor :)
> I failed to find the correct meaning of deb/debian suffixes in some
> version strings of packages in Debian archive. Are they stand for
> seriously modified code? I found 292 examples in Debian unstable.
>
> ("aptitude search "?version(deb)" --display-format="%p - %V"
> --disable-columns | wc -l")
Usually, these prefixes are mostly used:
debian
ds
dfsg
$vcs (i.e. svn, bzr, cvs, ...)
The first two usually mean that the original tarball has ben repacked not for
license issues: stale files, build-generated files, .svn/CVS/.bzr/$vcs
directories, [..]
"dfsg" is appended when the original tarball is repacked with the removal of
files which cannot be distributed by Debian, or, at maintainer's choice,
non-free files (i.e. suitable for "non-free"), but not absolutely needed by the
program itself so, instead of making the whole package non-free, just those
bits are dropped, and the whole package con go to main/contrib.
$vcs is added when... well, when it's a snapshot from a repository :)
There might be other suffixes used, but these are the first coming to mind.
HTH,
David
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