[mosh-devel] Semantic versioning and package versioning

[john hood]

Hi Anders,

Apologies for the debian/changelog bugs, and thanks for fixing them.  I 
should have tested that with package builds before pushing to GitHub. I 
tried to fix it on Friday, but got hung up on how to represent 
"1.3.0-rc2" as a Debian version, and ran out of time.  I think I 
understand your change, but let me ask, since Debian package versioning 
looks a bit like a black art from here:

* Does Debian packaging versioning depend solely on the Debian version 
number, or is any info extracted from or checked against the upstream's 
version?  Obviously, they *should* be correlated, for ease of use and 
proper sorting, but I'm trying to understand how a Debian version number 
may differ from the upstream's.

* Is the version naming in Mosh sensible and logical from a Debian point 
of view?  I did assume that semantic versioning would fit OK with the 
Debian worldview, but I didn't actually check that.   And does anybody 
involved with other packaging systems want to comment?

regards,

   --jh