Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Tue, Dec 25, 2018 at 06:50:08PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > Please release the first version of each major debhelper > not as “12” but as, for example, “12.0”. > > Rationale: backporting. > > When backporting 12.0 it will be versioned 12.0~bpo9+1, > when backporting 12 it will be versioned 12~bpo9+1. > > Version constraints normally read like: debhelper (>= 12~) > > Only 12.0~bpo9+1 fulfills this criterium, 12~bpo9+1 doesn’t.
That's not true:
mattia@warren ~ % dpkg --compare-versions 12~bpo9+1 gt 12~ && echo true
true
> This was a _real_ problem when debhelper 11 first entered
> stretch-backports.
The issue back then was because people used "debhelper (>= 11)" without
the trailing ~ (I know I didn't as well, and I keep not using it tbh).
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