Ubuntu versioning in native packages

[Luca Falavigna]

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When applying Ubuntu changes to a Debian native package, we usually use
packagename_Xubuntu1 versioning. For instance, sxid source package [1]
has version 4.0.5 in Debian and 4.0.5ubuntu1 in Ubuntu.

If a native package needs to be NMUed, Debian uses version-0.1 style.
This happened [2] to sxid, now Debian has 4.0.5-0.1.

When there is need to merge these packages, we can not directly upload
them because Ubuntu version is higher than Debian NMU one and we receive
a REJECT from Soyuz.

Is there something we can do to avoid these cases?

[1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sxid
[2] http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/sxid/news/20080119T164702Z.html

Regards,

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Luca Falavigna
Ubuntu MOTU Developer
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