Bug#1040901: Upcoming changes to Debian Linux kernel packages

Bastian Blank <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Oct 2023 21:25:30 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general,gmane.linux.debian.devel.kernel,gmane.linux.debian.devel.boot,gmane.linux.debian.devel.release,gmane.linux.debian.devel.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 06:05:09PM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Multiple uploads of the same upstream version will have
> > the same package name, but those rarely happens.
> Those happen fairly often for urgent security updates.

We could encode that in the upstream version.  Aka to have
co-installable packages for security updates we do:

- 6.6.1-1
- 6.6.1+1-1
- 6.6.1+2-1

This allows for easy semantic, aka we only care for package names about
the upstream part of the version, which then needs to follow a certain
syntax.

Regards,
Bastian