On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 at 15:36:53 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > If I know that the next upstream release > breaks backwards compatitibly and that it will have to mature a long time > in experimental until all other packages are ready, I might start to > package it rigth now in debian/experimental and continue to use > debian/latest for my unstable uploads.
If that's your workflow (the same as src:dbus, where versions 1.13.x are a development branch not recommended for general use), then I don't think debian/latest is a good name for that branch, and I'd recommend using debian/unstable for your unstable uploads. Rationale: it seems very confusing if a branch with "latest" in its name does not contain the newest available version :-) (debian/master didn't have that problem because it's named by analogy to the "master" branch used in upstream git repositories, which doesn't really have a fixed meaning anyway.) smcv