Re: Multi-codename Debian archives: how to uniquify packages?

2014-05-26 Thread John Morris
On 05/26/2014 10:22 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 11:11 AM, John Morris wrote: Fedora packager here, accustomed to a third approach. How do they do it in Fedora? Brain-dead compartmentalization: separate package repos containing separate builds for each distro release

Re: Multi-codename Debian archives: how to uniquify packages?

2014-05-26 Thread John Morris
On 05/26/2014 09:02 PM, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:32 AM, John Morris wrote: What do we do in Debian? Upload to Debian unstable, wait for migration to testing and then upload to backports. http://backports.debian.org/ Makes sense now that you gave me the right idea, and

Multi-codename Debian archives: how to uniquify packages?

2014-05-26 Thread John Morris
[Apologies if this is the wrong list; feel free to slap me in the right direction] I'm setting up a Debian package archive to contain packages that must be built separately for wheezy and jessie. Is there a Debian convention for adding the codename to the package version to prevent conflicti