Thread: What the *+0mX.deb means?
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2012-07-04 , 06:07
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Originally Posted by Hariainm View Post
I always wanted to know that: when i download a .deb file, usually it follows the scheme

random_app_v1.00-0m4.deb for OS2008 Diablo / N810
random_app_v1.00-0m5.deb for Maemo 5 Fremantle/ N900
random_app_v1.00-0m6.deb for MeeGo 1.2 Harmattan / N9

But now i see in my N9 apps (mainly coming from Nokia) who ends with 0m7 and 0m8, what does that means? Can someone explain me the naming scheme?
In the above examples 1.00 is the upstream version and m4-m8 are distinct Maemo versions based on that release. The number following the m has nothing to do with the underlying OS, it's just a monotonically increasing sub-version number. See http://wiki.maemo.org/Packaging/Guid...n_of_a_package.