Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Mattia Rizzolo writes ("Re: Bug#953554: Please permit Debian revisions with 1.0 native packages"):
> I'm with this.
> doing 1.0+1, 1.0+2, etc would trigger my versioning OCD much less than
> 1.0-1, 1.0-2 for native packages.
> Ian: how does this proposal sound to you?

Bad, I'm afraid.

Version numbers are consumed by humans.  A human who reads `1.0-2'
knows that this corresponds to upstream version 1.0 and is Debian
revision 2.

If you see `1.0+2' you think `there is some screwup with the upstream
version numbering; maybe upstream release multiple versions with the
same number or something?'.

There is absolutely no requirement for this to correspond to the
source format.

Ian.

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