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Re: RFS: wizznic



On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 08:52:37AM +0200, Kilian Krause wrote:
> Hi Tony,
> 
> On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 15:58 -0500, Edgar Antonio Palma de la Cruz wrote:
> > > Done.
> > > - URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wizznic
> > > - dget
> > >   http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/w/wizznic/wizznic_0.9.2-preview2+dfsg-1.dsc
[snip]
> 
> 4.) Having +dfsg as delimiter can be quite harmful. Usually ~dfsg is the
> preferred method as this will always be lower than the upstream version.
> Thus no matter what the next upstream version will look like, you can
> bump your package up to that version.

Errr...  Maybe I'm missing something here, but why is that?  How exactly
can having "+dfsg" be harmful?

My understanding is that both "+dfsg" and "~dfsg" are acceptable and it
is only ".dfsg" that may indeed be harmful if upstream decides to
release a next version with a new component that sorts lower than, well,
"dfsg" :)  However, I really don't see what upstream's next version
number has to be so that it will cause problems with "+dfsg"; could you
please provide an example?

G'luck,
Peter

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