Bug number - 542288

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Debian Bug report logs -  #542288 Versions for native packages, NMU's, and binary only uploads
Package:      debian-policy; Maintainer for debian-policy is Debian Policy Editors <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>; Source for debian-policy is src:debian-policy (PTS, buildd, popcon).
Reported by: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:15:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Merged with 850729
Found in version debian-policy/3.8.3.0
Fixed in version debian-policy/4.6.1.0
Done: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.Summary: I believe there is widespread agreement in this bug that Policy should  document the +bN standard for binNMUs and the +nmuN standard for NMUs of  native packages.  I believe it should also document the N.N standard for  NMUs of non-native packages, since people don't seem inclined to change to  +nmu and there's probably no reason to do so.  The stable release managers  at DebConf seemed amenable to switching to a standard of +sNN where NN is  the Debian major and minor release versions for updates of packages in  stable to address the mostly theoretical concern of ordering of updates if  the code names don't sort neatly.  If the security team agrees, that  should also be documented.