[SCM] FFmpeg packaging branch, master.snapshot, updated. debian/0.6-1-22-g954f195

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 02:07:38PM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:29:47 (CEST), Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:41:31AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>>>On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 23:16:52 (CEST), Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 17:08, Reinhard Tartler <siretart at tauware.de> wrote:

>>>>> what's the problem with 4:0.6~?
>>>>
>>>> That you intended to restrict the dependencies to the first 
>>>> upstream 0.6 released package, but you actually loosened to any 
>>>> previous svn checkout of the 0.6 branch.
>>>
>>>oh, I see. Indeed. In that case, Fabian is right with 4:0.6-1~
>>>
>>>This of course looses against 4:0.6-0ubuntu1, but that's hardly a 
>>>problem that we need to consider here anyway.
>>
>> Correct.  That -0xyz1 Debian version string is the oldfashioned 
>> style.
>>
>> Newstyle backport string would look like this: -1~xyz1 and work 
>> properly with the string proposed by Fabian.
>>
>> If Ubuntu is still using the old style, you (or someone else reading 
>> this and using Ubuntu) might suggest them to change to the new one.
>
>yes, ubuntu is still using it, but not for backports. -0ubuntu1 is used 
>in ubuntu if a package is being uploaded in advance of debian. I 
>therefore will not propose this change.
>
>for backports, ubuntu uses -1~suitenameN as well.

Ah, ok.  Thanks for clarifying.

Agreed, we need not care about such ahead-of-Debian uploads.


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