On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 10:01:53AM +0000, Holger Levsen wrote: > hi, > > debian-security-support | 2019.12.12~deb8u2 | jessie-security | > source, all > debian-security-support | 2020.06.21~deb9u1 | stretch | > source, all > debian-security-support | 2020.06.21~deb10u1 | buster | > source, all > debian-security-support | 2020.07.12 | bullseye | > source, all > debian-security-support | 2020.07.12 | sid | > source, all > > is what we currently have in the archive and which is a bit of a hassle to > maintain due to keeping version constraints sane (=newer releases should > always > have higher versions) and since rather frequently there are changes only > affecting older releases (so one has to upload to sid first, then do a stable > update and then update oldstable to propagate something which is only relevant > for oldstable atm.)
Looks reasonable to me. > Hence I propose to bump the epoch and introduce this versioning scheme: > > sid: 0:11~2020.08.17 > bullseye: 0:11~2020.08.17 > buster: 0:10~2020.08.17 > stretch: 0:9~2020.08.17 > and so on. >... > Feedback welcome. One nitpick: ~ works, but the "before" semantics makes it look confusing. 10~2020.08.17 is the 2020.08.17 snapshot/prerelease before 10. I would suggest one of 1:11.2020.08.17 1:11+2020.08.17 > cheers, > Holger cu Adrian
