On Sat, 2017-07-01 at 16:00 +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 04:01:43PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > > One rarer case is missing here: > > > > > 1.2.3-4~deb9u1 > > > Everything in 1.2.3-4 from unstable was in fact needed in Debian > > > 9, so it was simply rebuilt for Debian 9 and uploaded there > > > (prominent examples: firefox-esr, intel-microcode) > > > > Is this widespread enough to be worth describing? It's kind of hard to > > describe. > > I for one had assumed that there was no difference between -deb9u1 and > ~deb9u1, so I'd like to see it documented.
fwiw, I can't think of situations where -deb9u1 would ever be used. Either a selected set of changes were applied to the package in stable, which would be +debXuY, or a newer upload was backported in its entirety, which would be ~debXuY as above. In terms of the use of ~ versions for stable updates being widespread, there are currently eight packages in either stable-new or proposed-updates using such versions and a further nine in the corresponding suites for jessie. Several, but by no means all, of those uses are in packages from the security archive. Regards, Adam
