Package: ipxe
Version: 1.21.1+git20250602.5b3ebf8b+dfsg-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

the Ubuntu package of iPXE had gone ahead of debian and retained its
version number:
Debian had: 1.0.0+git-20190125.36a4c85-5.2
Ubuntu upgraded to: 1.21.1+git-20210429.323af9ee-0ubuntu1

Then Debian also released 1.21.1, but changed the verision format:
1.21.1+git20250602.5b3ebf8b+dfsg-1
Note that the '-' after 'git' is missing here.

Our latest Ubuntu package has to include the '-' to be newer than our
previous release, but this is now always newer than Debian's current version
scheme without the '-':
1.21.1+git-20250602.5b3ebf8b+dfsg-1ubuntu1

would you kindly consider adding the '-' back in the next release, so
our versions are in sync again?
I fear Ubuntu couldn't have done any better since the latest Debian version
at the time did contain the '-'.

Should there be a new upstream tag, we can both drop the '-' easily again.

Cheers
  -- JJ


-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers plucky-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'plucky-updates'), (500, 'plucky-security'), (500, 'plucky')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

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