On Fri, Oct 07, 2016 at 09:11:15AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, 06 Oct 2016, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > 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. > > It's not always the case. Check out all the OpenJDK DSA, just like > MySQL we import newer upstream releases: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00028.html > https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/openjdk-7 > > So while it has been used it's not the only one in use in the context > of the security team. >...
It is a different version numbering than the MySQL 5.5 case because it is a different situation. This OpenJDK DSA is not a packaging of a new version for the DSA only like MySQL 5.5, it is a backport (in this case from experimental): https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/o/openjdk-7/changelog-7u111-2.6.7-1~deb7u1 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
