Debian bug report logs - #1633
revision should be package_revision

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From: Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Bug#1633: revision should be package_revision

Erick Branderhorst writes:
> $ dpkg --info minicom-1.71-.deb
>  old debian package, version 0.939000.
>  size 119660 bytes: control archive= 701, main archive= 118946.
>       59 bytes,     2 lines      conffiles
>      220 bytes,     9 lines      control
>      572 bytes,    16 lines      postinst             #!/bin/bash
>  PACKAGE: minicom
>  VERSION: 1.71
>  REVISION: 1
>  MAINTAINER: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>
>  DESCRIPTION: Clone of the MS-DOS "Telix" communications program.
>  DEPENDS:
>  RECOMMENDED:
>  OPTIONAL:
>  CONFLICTS: lrzsz
> 
> REVISION should be Package_Revision

No, Revision is now a permitted name for the Package_Revision field,
and has been for a while.  This was announced on debian-devel.
Unfortunately the guidelines document is hopelessly out of date at the
moment.

I shall close this bug report, and the other two like it.

Ian.

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Package: minicom
Version: 1.71-1
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27

Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: Package_Revision field missing

$ dpkg --info minicom-1.71-.deb
 old debian package, version 0.939000.
 size 119660 bytes: control archive= 701, main archive= 118946.
      59 bytes,     2 lines      conffiles            
     220 bytes,     9 lines      control              
     572 bytes,    16 lines      postinst             #!/bin/bash
 PACKAGE: minicom
 VERSION: 1.71
 REVISION: 1
 MAINTAINER: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>
 DESCRIPTION: Clone of the MS-DOS "Telix" communications program.
 DEPENDS: 
 RECOMMENDED:
 OPTIONAL:
 CONFLICTS: lrzsz

REVISION should be Package_Revision
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Erick Branderhorst@heel.fgg.eur.nl 00++10-46351542
Deparment of General Surgery (Intensive Care) University Hospital Rotterdam NL