Bug#694872: Why was this bug closed?
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Ivo De Decker wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> On Sun, Dec 02, 2012 at 03:20:25PM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>> > Well, I thought this was only the case when there is no other option, because
>> > the version has to be smaller than the one in unstable (when testing has
>> > 4.3.6-1 and unstable has 4.3.6-2 with unacceptable changes). I did a t-p-u
>> > update like this (without the deb7u suffix) yesterday (for fossil), which was
>> > approved by the release team without any remarks.
>> >
>> > But I'm happy to change the version number if you like.
>>
>> +debXuY is the correct suffix for updates to wheezy and all future
>> stable releases. See:
>> http://bugs.debian.org/542288
>
> Well, the discussion is about what the suffix should be, not when it should be
> used. And there isn't really any sign of consensus about '+debXuY' in the bug
> report. Several possibilities are mentioned, but +debXuY is only mentioned
> twice, both times by you. That consensus was probably reached elsewhere.
Yes. I don't have a link to the final decision, but you can easily
verify the veracity of that statement by looking at the versioning of
packages that have gone through tpu recently (e.g. cdbs, underscore,
etc.).
Best wishes,
Mike
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