Re: Package version suffix

Peter Palfrader <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.curiosa,gmane.linux.debian.backports.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Wed, 08 Sep 2010, Russ Allbery wrote:

> Romain Francoise <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> > The contribute page still recommends using ~bpo as the version suffix
> > for backported packages. Since we can't switch to ~bdo for now (it's
> > less than ~bpo), maybe we should adopt an official numbering scheme for
> > backports, like ~lenny+1, or something?
> 
> It just stands for BackPOrts now, instead of BackPorts.Org.  :)

I thought it stood for backports.debian.org, with the p just being a
backwards d.

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