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Re: introducing an epoch for src:debian-security-support



hi Adrian,

On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 09:41:46AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
[...]
> > 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 [...]
> Looks reasonable to me.

thank you and everyone for your feedback on this matter!
 
> > 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

awesome! I like nitpicking! (well, often.)

I'll pick 1:11+2020.08.17 as this IMO looks better than 1:11.2020.08.17
and also because 1+1 is sorted lower by dpkg than 1.1...

I'll do the git commit right away, though won't upload before more meaningful
changes are there.


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cheers,
	Holger

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