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

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 11:20 +0100, Andrew Flegg wrote:
> 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.

So every single package in extras should have a maemo 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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