Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-14 Thread Russ Allbery
Guillem Jover writes: > On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 11:39:01 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: >> Guillem Jover writes: >>> I've actually changed my mind over this one since seconding #542288, >>> which I should probably unsecond. I think this is broken, and an NMU

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-10 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 11:39:01 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > I've actually changed my mind over this one since seconding #542288, > > which I should probably unsecond. I think this is broken, and an NMU > > of a native packages should instead

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-10 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 07:15:57PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > ~deb+ > Backport to the given (num1) distribution. ^^^ bpo Regards, Rene

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Guillem Jover wrote... > I think this is actually #542288? But I'll let the editors decide. It is. So much for the feeling "It was hard to believe nobody came up with this beforehand". Also, there's quite a lot to read now. > > +nmu Non-maintainer upload for native packages > > I've actually

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 07:15:57PM +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > ~deb+ > Backport to the given (num1) distribution. ~deb+ is used for "backports" of something to stable through point release or security, where that's more convenient than cherry picking a patch and upload a +deb+.

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Control: severity -1 wishlist Control: tags -1 patch Control: merge -1 542288 Guillem Jover writes: > I think this is actually #542288? But I'll let the editors decide. Yup, this is basically the same thing. > I've actually changed my mind over this one since seconding

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 19:15:57 +0100, Christoph Biedl wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Severity: normal > [ > "version" is a horrible search term, hopefully I did not miss any > other report about this. > ] I think this is actually #542288? But I'll let the editors decide. > Over

Bug#850729: debian-policy: Documenting special version number suffixes

2017-01-09 Thread Christoph Biedl
Package: debian-policy Severity: normal [ "version" is a horrible search term, hopefully I did not miss any other report about this. ] Hello, Over time, several suffixes to version numbers have evolved to denote uploads outside the regular, incremental upload to unstable. In my opinion the