Pointer to explanation of Ubuntu package naming?

David MENTRE dmentre at linux-france.org
Fri Oct 10 16:50:28 UTC 2008


Hello Didier,

"David MENTRE" <dmentre at linux-france.org> writes:

> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:54, Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> I think you can give a look at
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete#changelog, the second part
>> of this stanza explains the versionning convention.
>
> Thank you, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Oops, one remaining question: what does mean the "-3build1" part in a
package version (e.g. liblablgtkmathview-ocaml[1])? A rebuild of the
package without touching the corresponding source package, like Debian's
"-bN" packages?

Yours,
d.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/liblablgtkmathview-ocaml

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