self created .deb package has versioning problems

I did my first steps in creating a PPA, containing a recent fossil version.

I unpacked the tarball and ran bzr dh-make fossil 1.32 ../fossil-src-stable.tar.gz on it, editet the debian files till compilation worked and built my deb with

bzr builddeb -S -- -uc -us
pbuilder-dist utopic build fossil_1.32-ppa1.dsc

so far it was hard, but worked somehow.

No to my problem, as you can see, I built fossil version 1.32 and the deb is named fossil_1.32-ppa1_amd64.deb simple as by following the tutorials.

Now, when I try to install my deb, it tells me, that a more recent version is already installed and installation aborts.

Apt-cache policy tells me, that the installed version is lower:

$ apt-cache policy fossil
fossil: Installiert: 1:1.29-1 Installationskandidat: 1:1.29-1 Versionstabelle: *** 1:1.29-1 0

Question 1: What is this "1:" preceding the version number? Question 2: What kind of Version will I have to give my deb to be installed?

I already tried bzr dh-make fossil 1:1.32 ../fossil-src-stable.tar.g but that won't even give me a start.

1 Answer

Ok, got it. The deb package build gets its version number not from the version field in the control file, but from the changelog entry.