#499167 developers-reference: please explain deb/debian/ds suffixes in versions

Package:
developers-reference
Source:
developers-reference
Submitter:
"Eugene V. Lyubimkin"
Date:
2024-07-16 18:45:02 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#499167#5
Date:
2008-09-16 17:45:19 UTC
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Some Debian packages use deb/debian/ds suffixes to indicate repacking of
upstream tarballs. Please add note explaining this, reasons, options.
#499167#18
Date:
2024-07-16 08:10:19 UTC
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The convention seems to be documented in

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMentorsFaq#What_does_.2BIBw-dfsg.2BIB0_or_.2BIBw-ds.2BIB0_in_the_version_string_mean.3F

The text in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=774843 seems
to incorporate it.
#499167#23
Date:
2024-07-16 18:43:34 UTC
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Hi Daniel,
[...]

nice, many thanks for reporting this here. Could you maybe create a patch/commit/MR/foo too? :)