[Pkg-xfce-devel] XFCE 4.12 backport for Jessie

[Alexander Wirt]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015, Laércio de Sousa wrote:

> Vincent and all,
> 
> About suffix "~bpo8+1+b1" you've mentioned, it would still not work in my
> case, because resulting package version would be lower than one in Jessie!
> Let me take a practical example:
> 
> Package xfce4-mixer:
>   * Current source version: 1.10.3-1 in both Jessie and Stretch
>   * Current binary version in jessie: 1.10.3-1 (with xfce4-panel 4.10
> dependency)
>   * Current binary version in stretch: 1.10.3-1+b1 (with xfce4-panel 4.12
> dependency)
>   * Hypothetical binary version in jessie-backports: 1.10.3-1[X]~bpo8+1[Y]
> (with backported xfce4-panel 4.12 dependency)
Ehm. STOP. you don't package versions with the same source (!) version in
jessie and stretch. If you are doing that, you are doing something really
wrong.

Alex - Backports ftpmaster