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distro: differentiate upstream packages

Merged distro: differentiate upstream packages
upstream-release into master
Merged Jakub Ružička requested to merge upstream-release into master
  1. Feb 09, 2021
    • Jakub Ružička's avatar
      distro: differentiate upstream packages · 465504c7
      Jakub Ružička authored 
      Users reported conflicts between upstream and downstream packages. In
order to differentiate, I propose to insert `cznic.` prefix into package
release which will lead to a preference of upstream packages over
downstream ones when same versions are available:

    1.2.3-1 < 1.2.3-cznic.1
    1.2.3-999999999 < 1.2.3-cznic.1

Furthermore it's now possible to tell whether upstream or downstream
packages are in use just by inspecting installed packages' releases
which should make debugging easier. For example:

    dpkg -l | grep cznic

Equivalent change has been merged in Knot Resolver:
knot-resolver@58f48b2b
      465504c7