Build id vs Version number in Synaptic

[Colin Law]

On 11 October 2017 at 05:14, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> 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.

Help About in libreoffice writer shows
Build ID: 1:5.3.1-0ubuntu2
In fact this is the same as the package version.

Colin