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 |
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| 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