On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 09:03:15PM +0100, Christian Welzel wrote:
> Am 09.11.2012 14:41, schrieb Jonathan Wiltshire:
> 
> >You could add a NEWS entry detailing it, but that's likely to be noise
> >for the majority of users.
> 
> Is it ok to make the version of the package 4-5.19+dfsg1-3 and add
> a "-pl1" to the internal version number of the app which gets displayed
> to the user? Then he can clearly see the updated version but the
> debian version does not get messed up?

I can't see a problem with this approach.

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