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Commit ced86688 authored by Andrej Shadura's avatar Andrej Shadura Committed by Emanuele Aina
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Update the versioning document to mention co0


Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrej Shadura <andrew.shadura@collabora.co.uk>
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......@@ -51,11 +51,16 @@ how would that be named so that version-revision will not conflict with other
changes? What about if we want to backport the version in development, to build
against stable branch? What about us, as a downstream of the Debian package,
how should we version the package if we want to apply some changes on top of
Debian package? The convention, when modifiying the package for security
Debian package? The convention, when modifying the package for security
updates, backports and downstream modification, is to append to the end of the
existing Debian version number. As a result of this policy, many packages in
existing Debian version number. As a result of this policy, packages in
Apertis bear the addition `coX`, where `X` is a incremented number, which
shows the number of modifications made to the package by Collabora for Apertis.
The `co0` suffix means that the only difference between the upstream package
from Debian and the package in Apertis is the metadata under `debian/apertis/`
and the changelog entry itself. This is to highlight the fact that this metadata
ends up in the generated source package, so this source package carries a
small delta against the corresponding Debian package.
Additionally, there are a number of symbols that are used to separate these
portions of the revision. The symbol `~` is used to infer "less", and `+` for
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