[maemo-developers] Standardization of packages version name in the extra repositories

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Antonio Aloisio
<antonio.aloisio at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I propose you all, to choose a standard version name for us maemo packages.

It's such a good idea, it's already been done! :-)

See section 3.1 of the Maemo Packaging Policy:

    https://maemo.org/forrest-images/pdf/maemo-policy.pdf

My understanding[1] of this is:

* Any package patched, or not from a existing deb source, needs to
have a maemo version suffix.

    * For example, if the base version is 7.0, the package version from
      should be 7.0-0maemo1 for the first upload, 7.0-0maemo2 for the
second, etc.
    * If the upstream package comes from Debian (with version 3.5-7)
and is unpatched,
      the package uploaded from is also 3.5-7.
    * If the upstream package comes from Debian (with version 3.5-7)
and is patched,
      the package uploaded from mud is 3.5-7maemo1 for the first upload,
      3.5-7maemo2 for the second, etc.

Hope that helps,

Andrew

[1] http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jaffa/mud_design#Requirements

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