Kubuntu Documentation

[Christoph Wiesen]

Am Sonntag 03 Juli 2005 18:13 schrieb Rajeev J Sebastian:
> Ok. That seems logical. I am trying to package something for kubuntu ... so
> I would do something like:
> packagename-version-0ubuntu0.deb ?
>
> Rajeev J Sebastian

Well, I'm not sure - that depends on the kind of package you are doing I 
guess. If it's based on a debian package / if there already is a debian 
version (I would assume not) you'd have to emphasize any changes you made 
through the number following 'ubuntu'.

In my local apt cache (/var/cache/apt/archives) I see various version numbers, 
but none only with 0ubuntu0, so I'd assume that if it's a brand new package 
you wouldn't have to add anything avter the upstream version number - only 
once you made your first change you'd add 0ubuntu1.

Curiously it get's a bit more complicated with packages like the ones 
kubuntu.org did for KDE 3.4.1 and KOffice 1.4 for hoary:
kooka_4%3a3.4.1-0ubuntu0hoary1_i386.deb

That's quite a long version number and though the idea behind the additional 
hoary1 seeming to be to mark it as the hoary-package in contrast to the 
breezy package I'm not sure what the difference would be. Though now that I 
think about it breezy's using GCC4 afaik, so theres our difference.

Anyway as I only did some private packages I would take my words with a grain 
of salt - maybe you can get some more concrete answers at the #kubuntu IRC 
channel at freenode.

Cheers,
Chris