~dfsg vs +dfsg

[IOhannes m zmölnig]

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hi all,

recently on debian-mentors@, i was asked why i would version a
dfsg-repackaged source package as "<version>~dfsg-1" (which is sorted
before "<version>-1"), rather than "<version>+dfsg-1" (which is sorted
after "<version>-1")

i thought long and hard, but in the end i couldn't come up with a good
answer, so i said "because this is what i am used to from
pkg-multimedia" (which is not a good reason per se)

the only possible reason i can think of, is that if upstream decides to
re-release a dfsg-compliant package under the same version, then this
would ease the migration process.
is this it, or are there some deeper thoughts involved?


btw, i have also done some statistics based on the packages installed on
my laptop:
32 $(VER)+dfsg
28 $(VER)~dfsg
28 $(VER).dfsg
 5 $(VER)dfsg
 4 $(VER)-dfsg

so +dfsg and ~dfgs are quite on par (though .dfsg is as well, and it
seems almost everybody agrees that this is a bad idea; just like using
- -dfsg)


fgmasdr
IOhannes
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