Should PPAs be forced to specify a ~ppa1 or similar in the package version?

Pau Garcia i Quiles pgquiles at elpauer.org
Sat Apr 2 14:29:03 UTC 2011


On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Michael Terry
<michael.terry at canonical.com> wrote:
> On 02/04/11 09:56, Scott Ritchie wrote:
>>
>> This has long been "good practice" for a variety of reasons
>
> I agree with all your reasons, but tend to prefer ~lucid1, ~maverick1, etc.
> in case the same package is available for multiple releases.

I may be a rare specimen but I combine both:

debianversion~series~ppaNUMBER

For instance:

3.1.8-2~maverick~pgquiles1


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