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Bug#1088443: debian-policy: Recommend Debian package version format when upstream has no releases



"Diederik de Haas" <didi.debian@cknow.org> writes:

>> In case you make more than one snapshot per day, you can append a
>> snapshot number after the date, e.g. 0.0~git20130606.2.b00ec39-1.
>> This should rarely be necessary.
>
> If a rule is proposed to Policy, then it needs to account for such a
> situation and should therefor require an incremental number, which again
> is needed for proper sorting/comparing.

If the policy should say anything regarding multiple new upstream
release uploads per day for a single package, I would prefer if it
instead said "Go and work on your QA process, or take a break for one
day to let upstream stabilize before you package it".

/Simon

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