Re: Architecture: all binNMUs (was: deduplicating jquery/)

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 10:56:28AM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> Possible solutions:
> 
> - Change at least 622 packages so they have something more like
>   Depends: foo-data (>= ${source:Version}), foo-data (<< ${source:Version}+c)
>   (also hope that all of their maintainers can get those runes right, taking
>   into account what the binNMU suffix is, and hope that it won't break
>   derivatives like Ubuntu that use a source-upload suffix like ubuntu1 that
>   compares less than +b1)
> 
> - Change at least 622 packages so that when foo-data is binNMU'd, it
>   automatically gets Provides: foo-data (= 1.2-3)
> 
> - Change some more central component so that the dependencies are edited
>   or the Provides is added globally
> 
> - Something clever that I haven't thought of
> 
Make no-change-other-than-version-bump source uploads easier?

Cheers,
Julien