On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 06:16:37PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Thu, 06 Oct 2016, Adrian Bunk wrote: >... > > Do you have any rationale why you think -1~deb7u1 would be better > > than -0+deb7u1? > > My preference goes for the former because it matches the logic of > backported packages and thus does not introduce a new concept while > -0+deb7u1 is not something we use in another context.
-0+deb7u1 is a concept already used in DSAs for exactly this purpose. I just found a good example how the versioning you are suggesting could cause real problems: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/09/msg00017.html https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3666 If LTS would switch to your suggested -1~deb7u1, then a wheezy user who got your LTS package might not get future security fixes like -0+deb8u2 or -0+deb8u9 after upgrading to jessie. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
