build: Change weekly versioning scheme of debian packages #2257
2026-10-04
debian: Change weekly versioning scheme
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Right now our weekly Debian versioning scheme is VERSION="$BASE_VERSION~git$DATE.$SHA-$CLEAN_COMPONENT". This sorts weekly releases AFTER the BASE_VERSION, so when both stable and unstable are enabled, we never get weekly versions installed. https://wiki.debian.org/Versioning proposes {upcoming_version}~git{date}.{hash}-{revision} for nightly releases, which means we would have to know the release number of the upcoming version in advance. I don't think that is useful for us. By switching from a tilde to a dash, our weekly versions are not sorted above the stable base version and we will install the weekly versions over the base version, which I believe is closer to what we intend. Fixes: #2081