Initial PPA version number?

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#1 January 18, 2009

Hi, I'm trying to create a PPA for a little pet project of mine. Now I'm somewhat confused about the version string to use. I've looked through PPAQuickStart and PackagingGuide but I'm still not quite sure which it should be. For a new package that is neither in Debian nor in Ubuntu, what would be the version?

myapp_0.1 myapp_0.1-0ubuntu1 myapp_0.1~ppa1 myapp_0.1-0ubuntu1~ppa1

I guess what I'm looking for is an easy to read table that covers all possible cases.

#2 January 18, 2009

Perhaps you could start by taking a look here, which explains the Debian policy for version numbers

#3 January 19, 2009

Thank you, that helped clearing some up other questions I had. I'm still unsure about the ubuntu specific suffixes though. I guess I'll keep it simple and pick the myapp_x.y variant for now.