About versioning scheme
On Thu, 02 Jan 2014, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> *) Whoever can edit content on [1].
>
> Please update the documentation [1] for wheezy-backports
> contributions and make it clear to everyone that everything except
> ~bpo70+<build_int> gets rejected (although the generic scheme
> suggests ~bpo${debian_release}+${build_int}", which should be
> bpo7+<build_int> for Debian 7).
Furthermore we stopped using the minor component for major releases,
so that we display "Debian 7" and not "Debian 7.0" in places
like /etc/issue.
So it seems entirely appropriate to switch to ~bpo7+<build> now.
It's also wise to do this before Debian 10, otherwise we will have
to use ~bpo100 which is even more weird. :-)
And maybe keep ~bpo70 only when there's a pre-existing ~bpo60 in
squeeze-backports. Then any new upstream version that gets backported
offers a new opportunity to switch to the new versioning scheme.
Cheers,
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