Re: [Monotone-devel] ANNOUNCE: monotone 0.20

[Corey Halpin]

On 2005-07-06, Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
> Hmm, the link to the dpkg is incorrect, it should be
> downloads/monotone_0.20-0.1_i386.deb instead of
> downloads/monotone_0.20-1_i386.deb .
> 
> I wonder why the release number is 0.1 instead of 1.  Is there a
> reason, or is this a typo, or something I haven't understood about
> Debian release numbers?
 
  This is so that when there is an "Official Debian" release numbered 1, it
will replace release 0.1.
  The convention is that non-Debian releases should be numbered <1 so that
official releases will replace them on upgrade.

crh