[pkg-dhcp-devel] Bug#686174: Bug#685268: Your isc-dhcp 4.2.2.dfsg.1-5+wheezy1 upload

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 16:22 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:46 PM, Raphael Geissert wrote:
> > * Incorrect version numbering. For Wheezy the +debNuX schema will be used.
[...]
> It would be nice if that were corrected.  Also devref could use some
> correction as well since it specifies the old naming too
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#bug-security-building

DevRef's information on version numbers could do with some work in
general.  It's spread out around various places and often isn't inline
with practice, or even self-consistent - it variously suggests the
+debNuX scheme for NMUs for stable / testing, where it hasn't previously
been used, +codenameX for stable-sec and codenameX for t-p-u; the aim is
to unify all of those in to a standard form.

In general one isn't concerned whether an upload to stable or t-p-u was
a maintainer upload or not; the purpose of the version number is largely
to indicate that the upload was made to a suite other than unstable /
experimental.

Regards,

Adam