On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 05:09:34PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Russ Allbery wrote: > > > A scheme that would always satisfy this would be to use +<letter><version> > > for stable/security updates where <version> is the Debian version being > > targeted similar to how that's done for backports (so 50 for lenny or 60 > > for squeeze), and <letter> is some letter between b and n. (Alternately, > > we could use a different convention for NMUs than +nmu, but that's so > > self-explanatory that it would be nice to stick with it.) > > Interesting. +d60 for "Debian 6.0". :) > > What happens when there are more than 10 updates for a single Debian > version? Maybe that's not worth worrying about --- such a package is > either horribly buggy or should be using a more sensible versioning > scheme (e.g., ia32-libs and clamav-data just use the date).
Given that this is part of a version number, why aren't we just using +d6.0 and letting dpkg handle it? Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' Printing on GNU/Linux? http://gutenprint.sourceforge.net/ `- GPG Public Key: 0x25BFB848 Please GPG sign your mail. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120108234908.gm9...@codelibre.net
