We used to generate backport version numbers of the form VERSION_BEING_BACKPORTED~RELEASE_CODENAME1. It worked well at the time because it guaranteed that a backport of the same version to, e.g., natty would have a lower version number than the backport to oneiric, since the n would sort before o. That's important because we rely on the version numbers sorting like that for release upgrade paths with backports to work.
Colin pointed out that this would break down when we ran out of letters and started wrapping around, and suggested that we instead switch to using the version number, which is what backportpackage now does. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1007042 Title: [backportpackage] fails but worked last week To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-dev-tools/+bug/1007042/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
