Wednesday, 2 April 2025

Re: Consistency of package versioning in Ubuntu-only packages

On Wed, Apr 02, 2025 at 11:09:32AM -0300, Renan Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
> However, it does not hurt us to add the suffix in the next release, just to
> comply.

Yes - I'm far less worried about ubuntu-advantage-tools - it seems
unlikely that would get added to Debian, given what it is :)

But having a defined consistent policy helps I think. I don't feel
strongly about any need to change to *immediately* comply. A note in
debian/README.source saying "we know, but it's historical; we'll move at
the next opportunity" would also be fine. It's more that when reviewing
something new, Ubuntu developers know what to do without having to think
about it, there isn't a tendency to more inconsistency making things
more confusing for newcomers, and if someone is concerned when
reviewing, then they won't need to keep checking or re-raising the same
point :)

Robie