On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 03:58:16PM +0100, Christoph Lechleitner wrote:
> Am 2014-12-16 um 15:40 schrieb Adam Borowski:
> > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 02:14:42PM +0100, Christoph Lechleitner wrote:
> >> For example Debian's
> >> cups-daemon 1.7.5-4
> >> once freed from the libsystemd0 dependency, would become
> >> cups-daemon 1.7.5-4-0devuan0
> >
> > It's a bad idea to use -, because after a NMU in Debian you'll have
> > 1.7.5-4.1, and 1.7.5-4.1-0devuan0 sorts lower than 1.7.5-4-0devuan0.
> > You want + instead (1.7.5-4+0devuan0);
>
> But shouldn't the distro pinning overrule the higher version?

It can overrule 1.7.5-4.1 higher or lower than +devuan0, but not
1.7.5-4+devuan0 vs 1.7.5-4.1+devuan0.

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