Build id vs Version number in Synaptic

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2017 15:35:34 -0500, Jim wrote:
>Never mind, I managed to confuse myself. I see now that the version 
>number of Libreoffice for example is embedded in the build id shown in 
>synaptic.

There is nothing like a "build ID". Packages of most, if not all
distros are composed of the upstream software version, if upstream
should provide sane versioning and a package release.