[M3devel] versioning of .deb

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:

> I used cm3-LINUXLIBC6-REL.deb, and it installed cleanly.  But as is, it
> won't pass muster as a submission to Debian.  Not that I expected it to,
> and I'm happy with where it puts files, especially for a package that's
> still 'experimental' (but not in the Debian-technical sense of the
> 'experimental' distro, which is even freakier than sid).
>
> But one thing it should do, which it doesn't, is include a version
> number in its name.  I'm not sure what the exact rules are in Debian for
> delimiting a version number, but I'm sure *you*'d find it useful to know
> which version of a package is involved when getting bug reports.

Sure. Anybody cares to fix that? I've been uneasy with providing
these unfinished types of platform-specific archives all the time.

Olaf
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