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Bug#966373: marked as done (general: Higher version for uploads to stable and oldstable distributions)

Your message dated Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:53:33 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#966373: #966373: Higher version for uploads to stable and oldstable distributions
has caused the Debian Bug report #966373,
regarding general: Higher version for uploads to stable and oldstable distributions
to be marked as done.

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Package: general
Severity: wishlist

For those who care about Debian derivatives:

A derivative may be deployed as an overlay rather than a full archive.
Modifications from the derivative live together with originals from
Debian, but modifications must have a higher version.

Full archives use this approach to increase the version:
1-1 → 1-1foo1

This does not work with overlays because of binNMUs:
1-1+b1 > 1-1foo1
1-1+b1 > 1-1foo1+b1

A binNMU may be unnecessary in the derivative. Also, these versions are
disruptive:
1-1+b1foo1
1-1+b1foo1+b1

Thus, overlays should use this approach:
1-1 → 1-1.0foo1

However, regular uploads to stable and oldstable distributions may use
the same signalization ("+") as binNMUs, so:
1-1+deb1u1 < 1-1.0foo1

Therefore, please use a higher version for these uploads, such as:
1-1 → 1-1.0+deb1u1

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On Sun, 2020-08-30 at 11:53 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 release.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> versioning for (old)stable uploads is best discussed with the
> Release team. Filing this against the `general` package does nothing
> useful for this discussion, so I'm reassigning this bug.

Debian's version scheme for stable updates is well established in
tooling and usage at this point, and would need a compelling reason to
alter it and cause disruption to the process and users. ("These version
numbers are ugly" not being considered compelling.)

I'm therefore closing this request again.

Regards,

Adam
(with SRM hat on)

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