On Mon 01 Jul 2019 at 13:45:30 (+0000), Fabian peter Hammerle wrote: > > Presumably by employing the same method that linux-image uses: > > by moving/copying the version number into the packages' names, > > foo-1 and foo-2. > > Thanks for your suggestion > > We are using CI/CD pipelines that deploy multiple versions / debian packages > per day. > > So appending version suffixes to packages names would make our package lists > hard to read. > > ``` > $ apt search ^foo > foo-1.0.0 > foo-1.0.1 > foo-1.0.2 > foo-1.1.0 > ... > foo-1.999.0
If these versions of foo have to be paired up with corresponding versions of bar, then I think you have to delve into the business of Breaks:, Conflicts: and Replaces: as well as just Depends:, so that you get the correct one installed, upgraded, or removed under the appropriate circumstances. Cheers, David.
