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

From: Jason Edgecombe jason at rampaginggeek.com
Date: Fri Jul 25 15:59:39 EEST 2008
Johannes Schmid wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
>   
>> This is how I read it too. Only if we are the upstream ourselves, we don't
>> need the suffix. In all other cases we need it?
>>
>> "If an upstream package is re-packaged or otherwise modified for maemo, a
>> maemo revision MUST be appended to the upstream revision." MPP section 3.2
>>
>>
>>     
>>> That's my understanding - hopefully Eero could correct me?
>>>       
>
> OK, so I don't need a suffix for hildonmm because I am upstream myself?
> What about gtkmm? On the one hand we are more or less upstream (and all
> patches go upstream) on the other hand it's of course different from the
> debian package.
>   
OK, so how do I handle the openafs and krb5 packages where there is an
upstream debian package, but I didn't use it because the dependencies
were so different?

Jason

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