I would like to ask/get a consensus on a sensible "official non-official" Debian backporting version scheme for 3rd party packages.
The goal is to be able to provide non-official packages that do integrate within current Debian ones *but* do not interfere with normal Debian stable/backports. I think an example will help here. My main goal is to be able to provide [1] Qt backports. Due to Qt's private API usage of third party packages (kwin, for example) we Qt/KDE maintainers can't provide an official Debian backport package, as it would require binNMUs of stable packages living in backports :-/ [1] source at first maybe, amd64 later if I can get the necessary build power and bandwith. Yes, being"official non official" packages things might break, but think of it as a PPA that blends and plays as nice as possible within Debian. Normally one should propose an idea of how this versioning should be, but I'm currently not sure of a nice way and I'm also pretty sure I'm not the first one who thinks about this, so... ideas? Regards, Lisandro. -- Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/