On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 23:58:11 +0100 Rhonda D'Vine <rho...@debian.org> wrote: > > one ~ too many? > > Not really. You would need two ~ to be able to produce a backport and > have it work there too. So 1.3.2-3~~ is smaller than 1.3.2-3~bpo*. Not > that I plan to do it for tworld, but actually it's the safe thing to do.
1.3.2-3~ is already smaller than 1.3.2-3~bpo* > Actually I would assume most packages using that with only one tilde > didn't think about it, and I haven't even found any hint or > documentation that even suggests a single ~. dpkg-maintscript-helper(1) Andreas
