[M3devel] versioning of .deb

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 10:52:13AM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
> 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.

I'll try to find out just what their version-numbering scheme is.  Is 
seems to have changed in the past year.

-- hendrik