On Tue, 21 May 2019, Scott Kitterman wrote: > In Debian we use version-revision (where revision is sometimes complex for > backports and stable updates). If you use version-~revision where revision > is > some thing similar to, but different than that used for security updates, > stable updates, or backports, you could be reasonably assured that your non- > official version would also sort to a lower revision than the same upstream > version from any official repository.
Currently, we do version-revision for packages (unstable), version-revision~bpo for backports, version-revision+debXuY / version-revision~debXuY for security and stable-updates (sort higher than backports, lower than unstable/testing). If there isn't any reason to mind colisions with backports, just use ~bpo. It is not like it makes sense to have two "official" (be it official official or official unofficial :-p ) backports of the same package. Whomever comes ladter can just use ~bpoXu2 to superseed the first backport (~bpoXu1). That said, there's always "~~bpoXuY", which will sort lower than anything we use officially. But you'd need to go around setting bugs as fixed in version-revision~~ if you integrate with the BTS, etc. -- Henrique Holschuh
