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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not sure if you will have seen this, but it's quite an interesting
idea.  There are more posts on ubuntu-devel.

Martin





---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Scott Ritchie <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 3 April 2011 00:56
Subject: Should PPAs be forced to specify a ~ppa1 or similar in the
package version?
To: Ubuntu Devel <ubuntu-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


This has long been "good practice" for a variety of reasons

1) Independent PPA packages of new upstream versions can be
automatically replaced when a proper distro update occurs.
2) If the PPA package itself gets promoted to the archive, it can be
replaced by just dropping the ~ppa
3) It makes the version string more meaningful, as it prevents the
possibility of an official and PPA package having the same version
4) If you are branching foo-0ubuntu1 and need multiple iterations you
now have a proper number to increment without implying you've rebased
off foo-0ubuntu2.

Making such a change would have other value:

1) It makes it much easier to detect nonstandard packages on a system.
This can be done with automated tools too without fear of false
positives (in bug reports, with apport, with update manager, etc)
2) If all PPA packages were so branded, it would be much easier to
implement a "remove all PPA packages" type of feature.


Thoughts?

Worthy of a session?

-Scott Ritchie

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