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Re: Maintaining a package across several debian codenames



On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 08:14:39PM +0200, Robin ALEXANDER wrote:
> In a nutshell, if I understood correctly the debian policy
> 
> Branch debian/latest
> File debian/changelog will show "...(3.0.0-1) unstable ..."
> 
> Branch debian/bullseye-backports
> File debian/changelog will show "... (3.0.0-1~bpo11u1) bullseye ..."
It's "3.0.0-1~bpo11+1", see https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/

> Should I decide to setup a private repository on top to speed up things
> , I could add a new branch to my git repository:
> Branch debian/bullseye
> File debian/changelog would show "... (3.0.0-1~deb11u1) ..."
The versioning scheme for private repos is up to you, as long as it
doesn't clash with schemes used by Debian repos.


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