Wrong version for non-native packages

[Bilal Akhtar]

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On 11/21/2010 08:23 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Non-native packages that are uploaded directly to Ubuntu should have a
> Debian revision -0ubuntuX (where X starts with 1). A Debian revision
> that doesn't contain 'ubuntu' indicates that the package comes from
> Debian (e.g. 1.0-2 or 2.3-1ubuntu2). Is this common knowledge or
> specified somewhere?
> 
> I found some packages in main that do not follow this scheme:
> 
> udev
> upstart
> 
> Why did this happen? Will the version fixed in the next upload?

- From what I know, Upstart is in Debian as well (though the case is
opposite here, Scott keeps the Ubuntu package updated and the Debian
package sometimes lags behind).

Could this be a reason for the wrong versioning?


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