[Debian-med-packaging] Changing binary package name of fis-gtm at every single minor update

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Amul,

in a recent commit[1], the binary package name is again bumped to the
micro version number:


diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 54200ef..e6a1939 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fis-gtm
 Package: fis-gtm
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ${misc:Depends},
-         fis-gtm-6.3-003a
+         fis-gtm-6.3-004
 Provides: mumps
 Description: metapackage for the latest version of FIS-GT.M database
  GT.M is a database engine with scalability proven in large real-time
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Description: metapackage for the latest version of FIS-GT.M database
  .
  This metapackage always depends from the default fis-gtm version.
 
-Package: fis-gtm-6.3-003a
+Package: fis-gtm-6.3-004
 Architecture: amd64 i386
 Multi-Arch: same
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends},


I wonder whether it would not be more sensible to rather use

    fis-gtm-6.3

and just bump the package name for fis-gtm-6.4 or fis-gtm-7.0 (whatever
will happen).  It is quite unusual to have this package name change for
every micro version number and this shoul *only* be used if you need to
install all those micro version number packages at the same time on some
computer.  If this is not the case we should simplify things most
probably.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/med-team/fis-gtm/commit/23c6c2ac2d6352de7ee3ca08928482005205c605

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