On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:15 AM, Tim Landscheidt wrote: > - Must .deb versions/filenames be unique over all distribu- > tions or is it sufficient if package_0.1_amd64.deb is > unique in a distribution (and thus there is an error in > aptly)?
I guess by distributions you mean suites. It depends on the layout of your repository but most repositories have a shared pool rather than suite-specific pools, so files with the same name must contain identical data. > - If they must be unique over all distributions, what is the > best practice for debian/* in that case? AFAICS, one > could consider the package for Precise a "backport" and > follow the versioning scheme for backports, but I would > like (very much) to keep one combined source repository. I expect backports is the way to go. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
