Re: version numbers in testing-proposed-updates (was: current specialities for NMUs)
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 03:28:29PM +0200, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> wrote in debian-devel:
> > These packages are frozen, i.e. newer uploads to unstable won't go into
> > testing. The official way is to upload also a package to testing. To upload
> > a package to testing (or: testing-proposed-updates, this are just
> > synonyms; tpu in short), it is necessary that the version number of the
> > upload is smaller than the current installed package in unstable, and
> > larger than the current installed package in testing. So, normally, you
> > have to upload a package (directly or in whichever delayed you consider
> > appropriate), and the version for testing in one more day delayed.
>
> Will this also be valid for non-base/standard packages, once everything
> is frozen?
Yes, unless the sid version already moved on. Versions in testing cannot
be higher than those of unstable, so this must be this way.
> What version numbers are usually used? If it's no a NMU, does one upload
> an artificially high version number (debian revision of -50 or so) to
> unstable, just to be sure not to run out of maintainer-upload version
> numbers for testing-proposed-updates? Or is it normal to use NMU version
> numbers even for maintainer uploads to testing-proposed-updates?
You never run out of maintainer version numbers, since can you always
add parts.
Suppose you're currentlat at -3, then you can of course still upload -4,
-5 etc to sid, which is the common way. If you want a sarge backport of
fixes to sid, use -3sarge1. If it's a Non-Maintainer backport, use
-3.sarge1.
With this method, one dot in maintainer revision means NMU (with the
before-dot part being the latest MU), zero dots means MU, a property
nice to have.
Unfortunately, -3sarge1 sorts before -3.1, so if you want as maintainer
to backport a NMU to sarge, you're out of luck for straightforward
solutions.
--Jeroen
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