On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 02:08:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's been a while since the last update to this thread and proposed > wording about the special version numbering conventions in use in Debian, > and in the meantime things have settled out a bit more and we have a > pretty firm consensus on how to handle special versions. I'd therefore > like to resurrect this thread and see if we can agree on some wording. > > The patch below adds a definition of native packages to our definitions > section and documents the following version number conventions: > > - Native packages > - NMUs of native and non-native packages > - binNMUs > - Stable updates > - Backports > > I think these are all fairly consistent and widely agreed-on at this > point. > > Concerns, objections, seconds?
Maybe we should check whether this is consistent with the devref, since it covers the same ground. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.