What version is 5.2.0-8+etch13 really?

It is probably and stupid question, but what version of PHP5 is 5.2.0-8+etch13 ?

Is it really 5.2.0 ? Because maybe it is just the debian 开发者_开发百科version that covers something else.

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Not really. -8etch13 signifies that the Debian maintainer has applied no less than 13 revisions of his own patchset to PHP 5.2.0 and 8 of some other patchset.

Much of this goes towards backporting fixes from newer versions of PHP, so it doesn't really correspond to any particular PHP release.

So while it's better than PHP 5.2.0, it's not as good as PHP 5.2.11. If you have issues, I would recommend trying to upgrade to the latest PHP 5.2 (on a testing server, obviously). I've experienced strange bugs before with Debian's PHP packages.

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http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/php5/php5_5.2.0-8+etch13/changelog.txt

According to the Debian changelog, it is 5.2.0 with many security fixes merged from upstream development.

You can also see debian specific patch information for php5 / 5.2.0-8+etch13 for details on exactly what patches have been applied to 5.2.0-8+etch13 relative to upstream's 5.2.0 release.

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Have a look at the Debian Policy Manual, section 5.6.12 describes the versioning scheme for packages.

The format is: [epoch:]upstream_version[-debian_revision]

etch13 is the Debian version, which is explained by the other posters.