On 12/10/2016 07:26 AM, Paolo Greppi wrote: > The most popular suffix separator for dfsg is + (694 times), last comes > ~dfsg (79 times) and finally -dfsg (15 times). > > ?
~ sorts before [a-z], + sorts after [a-z] I have used 1.2.3-1~exp1 sometimes, because then I can use 1.2.3-1 for the next upload to unstable once I know that it worked in experimental. If you exclude something from the upstream tarball because it is not allowed in Debian, then to stop repacking the tarball you need a new fixed version (without the offending file in the tarball) to be released upstream. Then 1.2.3+dfsg-1 makes a lot of sense, because if upstream fix it, the next version will always be higher than 1.2.3 (e.g 1.2.4). The only advantage to using ~ that I can think of, is if we change the rules and the offending file was now "free", you could just drop the ~dfsg. Unless others can think of another use case? Cheers, Ross -- Pkg-javascript-devel mailing list Pkg-javascript-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-javascript-devel