Re: introducing an epoch for src:debian-security-support
On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:01:53AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote:
> hi,
>
> debian-security-support | 2019.12.12~deb8u2 | jessie-security | source, all
> debian-security-support | 2020.06.21~deb9u1 | stretch | source, all
> debian-security-support | 2020.06.21~deb10u1 | buster | source, all
> debian-security-support | 2020.07.12 | bullseye | source, all
> debian-security-support | 2020.07.12 | sid | source, all
>
> is what we currently have in the archive and which is a bit of a hassle to
> maintain due to keeping version constraints sane (=newer releases should always
> have higher versions) and since rather frequently there are changes only
> affecting older releases (so one has to upload to sid first, then do a stable
> update and then update oldstable to propagate something which is only relevant
> for oldstable atm.)
Looks reasonable to me.
> Hence I propose to bump the epoch and introduce this versioning scheme:
>
> sid: 0:11~2020.08.17
> bullseye: 0:11~2020.08.17
> buster: 0:10~2020.08.17
> stretch: 0:9~2020.08.17
> and so on.
>...
> Feedback welcome.
One nitpick:
~ works, but the "before" semantics makes it look confusing.
10~2020.08.17 is the 2020.08.17 snapshot/prerelease before 10.
I would suggest one of
1:11.2020.08.17
1:11+2020.08.17
> cheers,
> Holger
cu
Adrian
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