Bug#1088443: debian-policy: Recommend Debian package version format when upstream has no releases
- To: "Diederik de Haas" <didi.debian@cknow.org>
- Cc: <1088443@bugs.debian.org>, Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>, "Andrey Rakhmatullin" <wrar@debian.org>
- Subject: Bug#1088443: debian-policy: Recommend Debian package version format when upstream has no releases
- From: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
- Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2024 14:12:51 +0100
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- Reply-to: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>, 1088443@bugs.debian.org
- In-reply-to: <[🔎] D60DHDIUESDS.ZCX814KW7MLW@cknow.org> (Diederik de Haas's message of "Sun, 01 Dec 2024 13:45:36 +0100")
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"Diederik de Haas" <didi.debian@cknow.org> writes:
> On Sun Dec 1, 2024 at 1:09 PM CET, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> "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".
>
> If that is a regular occurrence, then I agree.
>
> But people make mistakes.
> Or if it's a high-impact security issue, then getting *a* solution out
> the door quickly is possibly preferable to waiting till you get the
> perfect solution. And that can be followed up by a bit better, but still
> not perfect solution, on that same day.
Sure, and I don't see the above statement disallowing that. For such a
situation, you could make up a new upstream version number that is
appropriate for the situation. For example, 0.0~git20230606a-1 and
0.0~git20230606b-1.
/Simon
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