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Author: Jaromil
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To: devuan developers internal list
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] New patches for eudev (3.2.2-8+devuan2)
On Sun, 03 Dec 2017, Daniel Reurich wrote:

>    Eudev being a directly packaged should have a version of <upstream
>    version>-<build version> and not have an additional +<devuanX.Y> which is
>    currently only used for our modified rebuilt version of debian packages.
>    So the correct version should be 3.2.2-9 in this case.

>
>    For updates, we can add +<suite version>u<N>, and backports +bpoN, and
>    security can have +<suite or suiteversion>securityN

>
>    In this way we follow the same convention as debian uses, and provide a
>    clear indicator where we override a debian package.

>
>    Of course this is all up for discussion, but I suggest until we can decide
>    on and document a good reason to break with this convention we should do
>    so.


I tend to agree with Daniel here, since this package is not forked
from Debian we don't need to add +devuan. Lets hear more opinions.

ciao