Understanding the numbers in package names (?OT)

[Jordan Mantha]

On 9/14/06, Constantine Evans <constantine at evanslabs.org> wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > While it is on-topic to discuss matters like this on this list, it would be
> > appreciated if you would collect the (good!) answers you've been receiving
> > and create documentation so that such questions don't need to be asked again
> > and again.
> >
>
> Is anyone already doing this, or should I write up a summary of the
> answers here and put it on the Wiki?
>

It should probably go in the Ubuntu Packaging Guide at least. I did
write about the 0ubuntuX versioning but I don't think I hit on epochs
or some of the other versioning techniques. By the way, I just put up
a wiki page for people to add suggestions or comments on the Packaging
Guide:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuPackagingGuide/Comment

-Jordan Mantha