D-Apt package numbers

[Matthias Klumpp via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 20 March 2017 at 08:52:05 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
>
> I see that D-Apt has the Debian revision number on packages 
> starting at
> 0. I had understood that the policy was to start at 1.

For stuff in *Debian* that is true, anything not in Debian should 
start at zero and add a "repository tag" to the Debian revision, 
if the package is new or has a new upstream version in their 
repository.
E.g. in Ubuntu, if the upstream version is "1.0", the revision 
Ubuntu chooses is "1.0-0ubuntu1". If a Debian package is 
modified, the "ubuntuX" tag is added to the Debian revision.
This ensures that Debian packages are preferred if they are 
available and that users as well as the Debian package maintainer 
knows where stuff was coming from when people report bugs (less 
of an issue on Ubuntu and other derivatives, there the tags are 
required to properly produce deltas between Debian and the 
derivative and to merge packages from Debian safely).

So, if d-apt is doing something like this, everything is fine :-)