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[Jono Bacon <jono@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Matt Fischer
<matthew.fischer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> So I was going to tell you no, but I talked to a real packaging expert and
> he says the official right way is that quantal would be the main version,
> like 0.3 and then precise is technically a "backport" so it's 0.3~precise1.
> The ~, I'm told, denotes a backport.  The precise version has a new
> changelog entry, not a modified one.  So the changelog would be something
> like:
>
> accomps (0.3~precise1) precise;  urgency=low
>
>   * backport to precise
>
> accomps (0.3) quantal; urgency=low
>
>   * releasing 0.3
>   * fixed some bugs...
>
> If we do this, I'll need to fix the build recipes too.

OK, this looks great. I recommend we take this approach to packaging
if you think this is a good solution, Matt.

    Jono


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