Hi, On Mon, 03 Oct 2016, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > I'd suggest to use 6:0.8.18-1+deb7u3 because it's the third update of > > that package within Debian 7. > > The version number should not depend on whether 0.8.18 was ever > in unstable.
Where do you get that rule from? There's lots of bikeshedding going on here and while the various commenters have some reason justifying their choice, there's no perfect choice. We have multiple possibilities that all respect the simple rules that the archive requires... That's why I consider that anytime that we will not have any conflict we should just use "<upstream>-1" and if we fear that the same upstream version will be used in multiple releases (for example if wheezy/jessie have the same upstream version), then we add the required "simili-backport suffix" making it "<upstream>-1~deb7u1". But it's also fine if we want to use -1~deb7u1 directly just to show that this is an oldstable update. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Support Debian LTS: http://www.freexian.com/services/debian-lts.html Learn to master Debian: http://debian-handbook.info/get/
